Curtiz

Sep 12, 2019

1h 39m

★ 5.8

No country should change a man's character.

Overview

Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's intervention in the European war.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Juno11 Pictures

Halluci-Nation

Sparks

Curtiz Trailers

Cast

Michael Curtiz

Ferenc Lengyel

Kitty

Evelin Dobos

Mr. Johnson

Declan Hannigan

Hal B. Wallis

Scott Alexander Young

S. Z. Sakall

József Gyabronka

Bess Meredith

Nikolett Barabas

Julius Epstein

Yan Feldman

Philip Epstein

Rafael Feldman

Conrad Veidt

Christopher Krieg

Jack L. Warner

Andrew Hefler

Irene Lee

Lili Bordán

Lucas Meredith

Dániel Gábori

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