Curtiz

Curtiz

No country should change a man's character.

2019 · 99 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama, History

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.

Directed by Tamás Yvan Topolánszky · Written by Tamás Yvan Topolánszky

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