Casablanca

One of the best love stories and essential romances in film history.

“Play it again, Sam!” We’re bound to remember the iconic couple, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, and sing along to the 1944 Best Picture Oscar winner. Torn apart lovers, Rick and Ilsa, are reunited by fate in Morocco. The country is a crossroads for wartime refugees, drifters and resistance fighters. Ilsa’s husband Victor needs a letter of passage to escape to America. Rick, a nightclub owner in Casablanca, is the most trusted man to help, but he prefers to test his unresolved feelings for Ilsa.

Michael Curtiz’s resonant melodrama has become one of the most frequently quoted films, with numerous familiar lines, and has inspired and influenced countless other movies. The legendary song “As Time Goes By”, sung by Dooley Wilson (as Sam), has been covered so often in films and TV series that it ranked second in the American Film Institute’s “100 Years...100 Songs” list, just behind “Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland.

Did you know that not a single shot of Casablanca was filmed in Morocco? However, there is an identical replica of Rick’s Café in Casablanca, which is a very expensive restaurant catering to wealthy tourists, mostly American