Directed by:
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Max SteinerCast:
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page, John Qualen (more)VOD (5)
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Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives hanging in the balance. (official distributor synopsis)
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As time goes by... Once upon a time the most beautiful femme fatale and the most charismatic cynic collided and events occurred that changed not only the world around them, but also the world within them. And when it was revealed how fatefully small the whole world can be, the consequences were no less serious. I want to experience my own Casablanca and I want to become part of such a timeless duo. Even though I will never be Humphrey Bogart and I will never be able to show such fundamental courage and humanity. So feel free to curse clichés however you like. Because they all have their origin, and it's right here. In the city of Casablanca, where refugees from all corners of the world are fleeing during World War II...
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The film features the Swede Ingrid Bergman, Englishmen Claude Rains and Sydney Greenstreet, Germans Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Italian Paul Henreid (playing a Czechoslovakian with a Hungarian name), Madeleine Lebeau and Marcel Dalio from France... and many others under the direction of Hungarian director Manó Kertész Kaminer. What could be a more Hollywood classic? It’s a paper-rustling romance that, due to fate, became something much more. Perhaps it is because of the paradox of the way in which the exiles mixed themselves into the story of exile.
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The naive political background and lack of chemistry between the central duo bothered me. Although I really like Bergman, she isn’t convincing at all here and it is probably impossible to believe that Rick and Elsa were ever bonded by fateful, undying love. In my opinion Bogart always belonged, belongs and will belong to Bacall or Grahame. This is a quality picture, but one of the more standard Bogart movies.
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A film that reeks of sentimentality just like its title. Casablanca, the gateway to paradise and a better tomorrow, away from the horrors of war and the deadly Nazi tentacles. Casablanca, Bogart and Bergman, whose paths had previously diverged, but fateful attraction and the events around them tighten the noose again. Casablanca, a happy ending as inevitable as Adolf Hitler's fate after the Normandy landings. Casablanca, I am under its spell, I admire the performance of the mesmerizing Bogart and the beauty of Ingrid Bergman, I devour every line of dialogue and the notion of a film classic comes to me literally from every shot and cut. The film ends and I rate it with four stars, not because I see in it a cult classic, a dazzling idea or a creative revolution, but simply because I found so very pleasant to watch, that the sentimentality did not tarnish the final quality and that Casablanca is..... well, in short, a very special place:-) 80%
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So now I've got this cult masterpiece under my belt as well. Nice. Really. A very well done romantic film that seemed to catch a lot of tears from romantic souls in the middle of the last century :-) Well, it didn't get mine because it didn’t end up the way I wanted it to. I did think that Ingrid Bergman overacted here and there and I had to chuckle at it, which probably spoiled the overall impression a bit. But why not? For film geeks, this should be required reading.
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