Noah Isenberg - Nekünk megmarad Casablanca - Hollywood legkedvesebb filmjének his life legendája and utóélete

Umberto Eco said Casablanca is not a film, but films. The world's favorite love movie. The world's favorite war movie. The world's favorite Bogart movie. It's all Casablanca. From the idea of ​​two American playwrights, it was directed by an American Hungarian, and at least ten nations participated in its production.
But what makes a movie that was shot in the dead of a horse, none of its contributors have ever been to the location, and whose main character mainly played bad guys until now, so popular? Film historian Noah Isenberg tried to solve the mystery for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the premiere. A play that had never been shown entered the dream factory and went through many hands until the script was formed. The set was crowded with Europeans fleeing Nazism. Two famous actors took on the role that made them superstars with serious reservations. A 178 cm, balding American became a sex symbol, and according to him, all it took was Ingrid Bergman to look at him lovingly. A young Swedish actress embodied elegance and purity for decades after the show. A girl with a piquant face became the face of the French resistance, even though she lived in Hollywood.
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