Casablanca (Casablanca) is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtis and written by Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein, Howard Koch, and Casey Robinson. The film won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The film was released on April 25, 1942.
During World War II in late 1941, exiled American and former freedom fighter Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) runs the most popular nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco. The cynical, lone wolf Blaine possesses two valuable documents that allow their holders to travel freely in Nazi-occupied countries.
When Nazi Major Strasser (Conrad Veith) arrives in Casablanca, the police swindler Captain Renault (Claude Rains) does everything possible to appease him, including the arrest of Czechoslovak underground leader Viktor Laszlo (Paul Henryid).
To Rick's surprise, however, Laszlo arrives with Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) – Rick's former lover. Rick is very bitter about Ilsa running away from him in Paris, but when he learns that she had a good reason for doing so, they plan to escape together, using Rick's two transit documents. Will their plan succeed...
