A Blockbuster Film

                               Casablanca

                             ~A Blockbuster Film~

''Casablanca '' is an American romantic drama film from 1942 directed by Michael Curtiz. It is set during World War II and the plot focuses on an American expatriate Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) who is the owner of the nightclub '' Rick's cafe Americain'' in Casablanca. It attracts a variety of clientele: Vichy, French and German officials, refugees who desperately try to reach still neutral United States.  Rick was in relationship with a woman Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman). At one point, she visits his Cafe and asks Sam, the pianist, to play her favourite song '' As Time Goes By''. Suddenly, Rick storms over, enraged, that Sam disobeyed hir order not to play that particular song. Then he spotts Ilsa. 

Rick finds out that she is here, in Casablanca, with her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), who is a Czech Resistance leader. At that point, Rick has to choose between his love to a woman and helping her husband to escape Casablanca-Vichy controlled city- to continue the fight with Nazis. 

Titbits

• none of the scenes was shot in Casablanca, the whole film was made in LA film studio
• when the film was being shot, not only did the actors not know what the ending would be, but also screenwriters. The script was being written au courant. 
• 3 Oscars: the best direction, the best film, the best script adaptation
• It is the most quotable film of all time
• In Maroco, there is a resaturant, ''Rick's Cafe'', which looks exactly the same as in the film 

''Here's looking at you, kid''

''Play it, Sam. Play ''As Time Goes By''

''We''ll always have Paris''

''Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine''

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Task: Pick a film, in which Humphrey Bogart or Ingrid Bergman performed.

Prepare a presentation about it, including pictures/trailers and titbits.