Casablanca 1942

Casablanca 1942 - Director: Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman Sydney Greenstreet



In 1942, the French-controlled Moroccan town of Casablanca is a transit point for people fleeing to America from Nazi persecution. Rick Blaine, an American expatriate and one-time freedom fighter, is the owner of a popular nightclub which is frequented by refugees, Nazis, crooks and gamblers. One day, the notorious Czech resistance leader Victor Laszlo arrives with his wife, Ilsa. It is a horrible twist of fate. Only a few years before, Rick and Ilsa had enjoyed a passionate love affair in Paris. Since Ilsa walked out on him, Rick has closed his heart to love and has become hard and cynical. When she hears that Rick has in his possession letters of transit that will guarantee her and her husband save passage to America, Ilsa pleads with him to let her have them. Rick realises that he still loves Ilsa and knows that he can never let her go...