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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1942
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Genres
Romance War Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“Casablanca is as much about movies as about romantic adventure. It taps our love of movies, our involvement with them, our dreamy bondage by them.”
Jay Carr, The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films, 2002
Set in Vichy-controlled Morocco during WWII, Casablanca revolves around a nightclub run by cynical American expat Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), where resistance fighters, immigrants and Nazis converge to police or partake in an illicit economy. In this colourfully exotic setting, created entirely on the Warner Bros studio lot, an affair is rekindled between Rick and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the latter now the wife of a resistance leader.
Directed by Hungarian refugee Michael Curtiz, Casablanca exemplifies the consummately crafted Hollywood drama, in which all the elements seem to have fallen alchemically into place. The screenplay sparkles with memorable lines, the supporting cast overflows with indelible performances, and the whole is given an urgent, topical edge by being made on the cusp of America’s involvement in the war.
Ostensibly an adaptation of Hemingway’s novel, Howard Hawks’ To Have and Have Not (1945), also starring Bogart, is effectively a remake of Casablanca transplanted to Martinique.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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[Narrator]
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Richard 'Rick' Blaine
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Ilsa Lund Laszlo
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Victor Laszlo
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Captain Louis Renault
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Major Heinrich Strasser
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Señor Ferrari
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Ugarte
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Carl, the head waiter
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Yvonne
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Sam
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Annina Brandel
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Berger
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Sascha, the bartender
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pickpocket
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[Jan Brandel]
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[Emile, the croupier]
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[First Officer Tonnelli]
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[Andreya, singer]
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[Mr Leuchtag]
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[Mrs Leuchtag]
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[Arab vendor]
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[Abdul, Rick's doorman]
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[Blue Parrot bartender]
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[German banker]
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[friend]
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[contact]
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[banker]
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[waiter]
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[Casselle]
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[Englishwoman]
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[Fydor]
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[Heinz]
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[head waiter]
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[prosperous man]
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[American]
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[vendor]
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[dealer]
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[native]
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[German officer]
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[French officer]
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[customer]
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[German officer]
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[police officer]
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[French police officer]
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[muezzin]
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[policeman 1]
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[policeman 2]
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[civilian]
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[Englishwoman]
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[news vendor]
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[Englishman]
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[Englishman]
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[Moroccan]
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[concierge]
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[refugee]
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[refugee]
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[moor]
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[elderly admirer]
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[woman companion]
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[conspirator]
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[conspirator]
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[customer]
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[baccarat dealer]
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[overseer]
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[woman customer]
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[native officer]
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[native officer]
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[cashier]
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[American]
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[Frenchman]
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[prosperous tourist]
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[orderly]
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[gendarme]
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[waiter]
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[gambler]
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[gambler]
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[.]
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[.]
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[.]
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[.]
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[.]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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[Assistant Director]
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Dialogue Director
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[Screenplay Supervisor]
Production:
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©/Production Company/Presents
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Executive Producer
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a Hal B. Wallis production
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[Unit Manager]
Writing:
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Screen Play by
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Screen Play by
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Screen Play by
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From a play by
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From a play by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
Special Effects:
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Special Effects by (Director)
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Special Effects by
Editing:
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Film Editor
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Montages by
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Montages by
Design:
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Art Director
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Set Decorations by
Costumes:
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Gowns by
Make-up:
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Make-up Artist
Music:
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Music by
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Songs by
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Songs by
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[Sam's Piano Playing Dubbed by]
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Musical Director
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Orchestral Arrangements
Sound:
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Sound by
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Sound System
Consultant:
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Technical Adviser
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