Casablanca (film)

Synopsis

Rick and Ilsa loved themselves with Paris, then separate. A few years after, in the chaos of the Second world war, Ilsa unloads with Casablanca with its husband, hero of resistance. Rick, become owner of night club, cynical and detached from all, is the only one with being able to help the couple to escape. But he refuses to do it…

Data sheet

original Title: Casablanca
original Title of script: Everybody Comes to Rick' S
Realization: Michael Curtiz
Scenario: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casey Robinson (not credited), according to a part of Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
Music: max Steiner
Photography: Arthur Edeson
Assembly: Owen Marks
Country of origin: The United States
Format: Black and white - 1,37:1 - its mono - 35 mm
Kind: drama, lovesong
Lasted: 102 minutes
Budget: 1 million $
US Boxoffice: 4 million $
Comings out date:

the United States: November 26th 1942 (first in New York)
France: May 23rd 1947
the United States: June 18th 1949 (brought out first)
the United States: April 10th 1992 (arisen second)
the United States: January 19th 2005 (brought out first)

Entered to France: 3.574.443

Distribution

The distribution is remarkable by its internationalism: only three of the credited actors were born in the USA.

Humphrey Bogart : Rick Blaine. With Casablanca , Bogart became a star. Previously he had played only of the roles of gangster, interpreting named characters Rocks, Turkey, Whip, Chips, Gloves (and twice Dukes). In 1941, the Maltese Falcon offers its first great role to him, and High Sierra had offered a certain human heat to him but Rick was the first which is really romantic.

Ingrid Bergman: Ilsa Lund Laszlo. Official Internet site of Bergman qualifies this role like its more famous . After a promising beginning with Hollywood in Intermezzo, its other films had not been great successes until Casablanca . Ebert qualifies it " lumineuse" and alchemy between it and Bogart comments on thus: " it paints the face of Bogart with its clean yeux".

Paul Henreid: Victor Laszlo (Czechoslovakia). Henreid was an Austrian actor who had fled the Nazi Germany in 1935. It was seems T it little laid out to accept this role little gratifiant ( that catalogs you forever as somebody of stiff according to Pauline Kael) until it is ensured by Bogart and Bergman to be well remunerated.

Claude Rains: Captain Louis Renault. Rains was a British actor born with London.

Conrad Veidt : Major Heinrich Strasser of the S. German actor, it appears in the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari in (1920). He fled the Nazis and finished his career while playing of the Nazis in American films.

Sydney Greenstreet: Signor Ferrari. Another British. Greenstreet had begun with the cinema with Lorre and Bogart in the Maltese Falcon .

Peter Lorre: Guillermo Ugarte. Lorre was an actor austro-German who had left Germany in 1933. He was the interpreter of the killer in M curses it .

S.Z. Sakall: Carl (under the name of S.K. Sakall). S.Z. Sakall was a Hungarian actor who had fled Germany in 1939.

Madeleine LeBeau: Yvonne. Frenchwoman, woman of Marcel Dalio until their divorce in 1942.

Dooley Wilson: Sam. Arthur " Dooley" Wilson (1894-1953) was with the head of a very popular orchestra in the years 1920. He is the only actor who was in Casablanca (at the time of a round in Europe and North Africa). He could not play of the piano.

Joy Page: Year Brandel, the Bulgarian refugee. Joy Page was the daughter-in-law of the director of the studio Jack Warner.

John Qualen: Shepherd. John Qualen was born with the Canada but grew in the USA. It appears in many films of John Ford.

Leonid Kinskey : Sascha. Leonid Kinskey had been born in Russia.

Curt Wood: the pickpocket. Curt Bois was a taken refuge German Jewish actor. He can claim under actor to the more long career since he made his first appearance with the cinema in 1907 and the last in 1987.

Actors not credited with the credits:

Marcel Dalio: Emile, the croupier (not-credited with the credits). Star of the French cinema (the Great Illusion and the Rules of the game of Jean Renoir), it fled the invasion Nazi and was tiny room to minor roles in Hollywood. He was also a key character in another film with Bogart, To Have and Have Not .

Helmut Dantine (Jan Brandel). Helmut Dantine, Austrian, had been interned in a Concentration camp after the Anschluss.

Part of the emotional impact of film is allotted to the significant proportion of exiled European and refugees among the minor roles and the observers. Ebert quotes a witness of the turning of the scene duel of the songs : " half of the observers had the tears with the eyes… the majority sang their own experience of refugees of Germany nazie". It was Corinna Mura (Wall, the USA) which sings the Marseillaise.

Genesis of the scenario

The original screenplay is inspired by a voyage in Europe of Murray Burnett, during which he visited Vienna and the littoral of the south of France, where coexisted then, little easily, of the Nazis and the refugees. In this original part, the character of Ilsa is American; it does not meet Laszlo before its relation with Rick in Paris is finished; Rick is a lawyer.

The two principal contributors with the scenario for Warner were the twins Epstein (Julius and Philip) who added more elements of Comédie. Other credited contributors, whose Howard Koch, joined them later. Several important scenes were then added by Casey Robinson (not credited), in particular the meetings between Rick and Ilsa in the coffee. In spite of these multiple origins, the scenario remains, according to the critic Ebert, " magnificiently homogeneous and consistant".

Setting in scene

The director Michael Curtiz was an emigrant Hungarian, made at the United States in the years 1920 but whose certain family members had fled the Nazi Germany.

Certain scenes, as those which show the invasion of France, were put in scene by Don Siegel. Turning proceeded May 25th with the August 3rd 1942. First took place the November 26th according to with the Hollywood Theater with New York.

The realization of film was very delicate, the scenario being written from day to day. Michael Curtiz turned each scene with an immense care, while often not knowing where it went. Result, the film, an absolute masterpiece, is of an unequalled perfection.

Music

The music of film was written by max Steiner which was already known to have written the music of Gone With The Wind . The song " Ace Time Goes By " of Hermann Hupfeld belonged to the original screenplay; Steiner wanted to replace it by one of its compositions but had to give up it because Bergman being cut the hair for its next role, the scenes which mentioned the song could not be refilmées. In the place, Steiner based its partition on this song and " the Marseillaise " by transforming them to express the atmospère changing film. Remarkable is the " duel of the chansons" , in which " the Marseillaise " is played by an orchestral unit (rather than by the small orchestra present in the club of Rick) and which is opposed to German singing " Die Wacht amndt Rhein " with the piano. The other principal songs are " It Had to Be You" from 1924 with arrangements of Gus Kahn and a music of Isham Jones, and " Knock one Wood" (music of M.K. Jerome, arrangements of Jack Scholl).

Around film

According to signal 100 of American Film Institute, Casablanca is the second larger film American of the history of seventh Article

Rewards

Named eight times at the Oscars in 1944, the film will gain finally 3 statuettes:

Better film
Better scenario
Better realizer

Anecdotes

Limited to the level budget, the plane which one sees in the final scene is actually out of paperboard, with like crew of the dwarves to give the illusion of an apparatus of real size.
In Germany, the film could not leave during the war, because he was regarded by the authorities as a work of propaganda Anti-Nazi. After the war, the film was projected but with twenty minutes of cuts; all references to the Nazism and the character of Major Strasser having been removed.
They are in particular Jews which incarnate the roles of Nazis, who could only feel concerned by the gravity of the subject.
In 1987, a special copy was projected with the Festival of film of Rio with fine an alternative. Ingrid Bergman there did not travel by the plane and went back in the arms of Humphrey Bogart.
a continuation had been considered, it was to be called " Brazzaville". But Ingrid Bergman being desisted, the project fell finally to water. However, a literary action pursuant was taken in 1990 by Michael Walsh with her novel " Ace time goes by".

Adaptations

Two televised series were adapted film:

one of 10 episodes 60 minutes with Charles McGraw, diffused in 1955
one of 7 episodes 60 minutes with David Soul and Ray Liotta, diffused in 1983

Two radiophonic adaptations:

by Screen Guild Players, with the actors of origin Humphrey Bogart, Ingid Bergman and Paul Henreid, emitted the April 26th 1943 ; duration: 30 minutes
by Lux Radio operator Theater, with Hedy Lamarr (Ilsa), Alan Ladd (Rick) and John Loder (Victor Laszlo), emitted the January 24th 1944, produced by Cecil B. DeMille ; duration: 55 minutes

Two parodies:

One night in Casablanca (1946) is a pastiche of the film by the Marx Brothers, which was worth to them some contentions with the Warner.
Carrotblanca (1995), short-measuring of animation, at the same time parody and homage, in which Bugs Bunny includes the role of Humphrey Bogart: HTTP: /www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Carrotblanca/video/x1i93y_carrotblanca-looney-tunes_fun

External bonds

'' Casablanca '' on Internet Movie Database
Casalinx, Casablanca photographs, posters, sounds, forum
the series of 1955 on IMDb
the series of 1983 on IMDb
Adolphe Thiers - Die Wacht amndt Rhein (S. ale.)
Reinhard Heydrich killed with Prague, Czechoslovakia
en.wikipedia: Ace Time Goes By (Engl.)
detailed Analysis and test of the DVD
CASABLANCA: Card-index, critical, photographs…
Casablanca At the Movie Wiki

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