Casablanca, Michael Curtiz, 1942. Photo: NFSA.
PG | 102 Mins | 1942 | DCP | US | D: Michael Curtiz
Set, filmed and released during the Second World War, Casablanca follows American expatriate Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) who runs a nightclub in the titular Moroccan city amidst tensions between French authorities, German Nazi officers and refugees eager to escape German-controlled Europe. Enter Rick’s ex-lover Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband, Czech resistance fighter Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), and the determinedly impartial Blaine finds himself faced with difficult choices.
Ranking in the top 10 on the BBC’s list of ‘100 Greatest American Films’, this influential classic won the Oscars for Best Director, Best Screenplay (Julius J Epstein, Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch) and Best Film.
‘…thoroughly entertaining romantic melodrama, flawlessly directed, subtly played, lovingly evoking our collective daydreams about lost chances and lost loves and love versus honour’ – TV Guide Magazine
The details
What: Casablanca screening
When: 1 pm, Sunday 15 September 2024
Where: Arc Cinema, NFSA Acton
Cost: $12–16 via the NFSA website
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