Film: Casablanca

Tuesday 30th March

World War II Morocco springs to life in Michael Curtiz's classic love story. Colourful characters abound in Casablanca, a waiting room for Europeans trying to escape Hitler's war-torn Europe. Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis.

When his long-lost love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), surfaces in Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from Casablanca, and Rick may be the only one who can help them.

Sixty-five years on and Casablanca has lost none of its excitement, drama, comedy or romantic charm; its dialogue has become part of our vocabulary and 'As Time Goes By' one of cinema's greatest love songs.

 

 

 

 

 

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