• Director: Michael Curtiz
  • Release Year: 1942
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English, French, German, Italian

Casablanca

Description

An embittered American ex-pat comfortably ensconced in Morroco, Rick tries to ignore the war and pretend he doesn't care who wins, Nazis or Allies, until the night his old lover Ilsa walks into his bar, trailing a husband Rick never knew about, a Nazi manhunt, and a desperate search for black market transit papers which will allow their bearers to escape through German territory, papers which are in Rick's not-so-forgiving possession.

Themes

Individualism, Sacrifice, French Protectorate of Morocco (1912 – 1956), Vichy France, Collaboration, Naziism, Colonialism, Czechoslovakia (1918 – 1992), Resistance, Antiheroes, Expatriates, Orientalism, Popular culture, Archetypes, French Colonial Empire (1534 — 1946)