Casablanca
Few films capture the imagination as much as this more than 80-year-old classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman about life’s choices, love, romance, politics and freedom.
In the early 1940s, the world is at war, and the city of Casablanca is a hotbed of spies, traitors, Nazis, and the French Resistance. Amidst this chaos is the cynical Rick Blaine, an American expatriate who runs a popular nightclub. Preferring to remain neutral, Rick steers clear of the war and refuses to take sides. However, everything changes when he discovers that his former lover, along with her husband – a Resistance leader on the run from the Germans – has arrived in Casablanca. Rick faces a dilemma: he is the only one who can help them escape, but does he really want to?
Casablanca is one of the great Hollywood classics of the 1940s. The film marked the beginning of Ingrid Bergman’s rise to stardom, won three Oscars, and was named the most romantic film of all time by the American Film Institute.