

No country should change a man's character.
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.

Michael Curtiz

Kitty

Mr. Johnson

Hal B. Wallis

S. Z. Sakall

Bess Meredith

Julius Epstein
Philip Epstein
Conrad Veidt

Jack L. Warner

Irene Lee
Lucas Meredith