Curtiz
“No country should change a man's character.”
DramaHistory
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.
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A tense look at the pressures of wartime filmmaking. It captures the anxiety of artistic compromise and the struggle to balance personal vision with nationalistic demands, all set against the backdrop of Hollywood's golden age.
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