Casablanca
Curtiz's film is a classic for a reason -- it's crafted with the precision, detail and beauty of a Fabergé egg.
Casablanca
Academy Award® winners Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most enduring romances in movie history - Casablanca.
Rick Blaine owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund walks through the front door of Rick's club--Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.
Academy Awards for: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Academy Award nominations for: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Humphrey Bogart) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Claude Rains) Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
Rick Blaine owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund walks through the front door of Rick's club--Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.
Academy Awards for: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Academy Award nominations for: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Humphrey Bogart) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Claude Rains) Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
Genre
Drama,
Romance,
War,
Repertory
Web Site
Runtime
107
Language
English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer(s)
Julius J Epstein,
Philip G Epstein,
Howard Koch
Cast
Humphrey Bogart,
Ingrid Bergman,
Paul Henreid,
Claude Rains,
Conrad Veidt,
Sydney Greenstreet,
Peter Lorre
Awards:
Winner, Best Picture, Academy Awards
Winner, Best Director, Academy Awards
Winner, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Cinematography, Academy Awards
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Serena Donadoni, Village Voice
'Casablanca' is a sharply political movie, displaying overt admiration for anti-fascist activists and sympathy for refugees while subtly probing the corrosiveness of appeasement. In the decades following World War II, the 1944 Academy Award winner — Best Picture, Director (Michael Curtiz), and ...
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