Casablanca

Casablanca is an American romantic drama film from 1942 starring (protagonizada por )  Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Isla Lund. The film reaped (cosechó)   incredibly good reviews and has grown (crecido)  in popularity over the years, becoming one of the greatest films in the history of cinema. Casablanca was nominated to 16 Academy Awards, of which it won three: Outstanding Motion Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. One of the most famous quotations  from the film is “Play it again, Sam”, when Isla first sees Rick playing piano in a club in Casablanca. 

The plot is as follows : Rick Blain is an American expatriate living in Casablanca. He owns (es el dueño de )  and runs (dirige) the popular nightclub “Rick’s Café Américain”. Blaine comes into the possession of two letters (cartas) . When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the police Captain Renault does what he can to please ( agradarle)  him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo.

Laszlo’s only hope for escape is Rick Blaine, who risks  his neck ( arriega/se juega el cuello)  for no one—especially Laszlo and his wife, Ilsa, Rick’s ex-lover who broke his heart when she abandoned him in Paris. But when he learns she had good reason to escape, they plan to run away (escapar)  together again using the letters.