Casablanca

In the 1941 film, an American expatriate named Rick Blaine in Casablanca secretly aids people trying to escape the Nazis, but when his former lover Ilsa and her resistance leader husband need his help, he must choose between their escape and his own happiness. Casablanca is a 1942 American English-language Drama Romance movie featuring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Wolfgang Zilzer. The movie is inspired from Everybody Comes to Rick s by Murray Burnett Joan Alison. Warner Bros. First National Pictures was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Hal B. Wallis. Casablanca is written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard E Koch, Murray Burnett, Joan Alison and Kenneth Casey Robinson and it is directed by Michael Curtiz. Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the film. Casablanca was released on 23rd January 1943 and takes a screen time of 102 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. Casablanca was made on a budget of $8780009500 billion and at the box office it grossed only $4 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Cinematography was done by Arthur Edeson and editing by Owen Marks. The music was composed by Academy Award Oscar winner Max Steiner. At the 1944 Oscar Awards It won 3 awards including: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay.