Casablanca
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.
Plot
In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns a nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and Nazi German officials, refugees desperate to reach the neutral United States, and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, he ran guns to Ethiopia in 1935 and fought on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War.
Awards
Cast
- Adrienne D'Ambricourt
- Alberto Morin
- Barry Norton
- Claude Rains
- Conrad Veidt
- Creighton Hale
- Curt Bois
- Dan Seymour
- Dooley Wilson
- Ellinor Vanderveer
- Frank Mazzola
- Frank Puglia
- George Dee
- George J. Lewis
- George Meeker
- Georges Renavent
- Gino Corrado
- Gregory Gaye
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
- Helmut Dantine
- Humphrey Bogart
- Ilka Grüning
- Ingrid Bergman
- Jamiel Hasson
- Jean De Briac
- Jean Del Val
- John Qualen
- Joy Page
- Leo White
- Leon Belasco
- Leonid Kinskey
- Louis Mercier
- Louis V. Arco
- Ludwig Stössel
- Madeleine LeBeau
- Marcel Dalio
- Norma Varden
- Oliver Blake
- Paul Henreid
- Paul Panzer
- Paul Porcasi
- Peter Lorre
- Richard Ryen
- S. Z. Sakall
- Sydney Greenstreet
- Trude Berliner
- William Edmunds
- Wolfgang Zilzer