From fiction to reality_ "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship !!!"

Rating: 9/10 (21 March 2007)

THE FICTIONAL PLOT_The famous Michael Curtiz (1886-1962) film entitled Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) and Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), is the nonconformist love story of an American casino-bar owner in Casablanca (Morocco) who, in memories of his lost love, gets out from his disillusioned neutrality to help a french Resistant couple pursued by Nazis.
THE HISTORICAL REALITY_The Casablanca film Premiere has been released in New York city on 26/11/1942 : a few weeks after the military Allied Torch Operation (8/11/1942_british American invasion in North Africa) straight away followed by the German military response in France named Attila Operation (11/11/1942_german invasion of the french "demarcation line"). It has been officially and widely released on 23/01/1943, at the end of the Symbol operation week also called Casablanca conference (Morocco, 14-23 January 1943) at the Anfa Hotel where US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) and English Prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) both decided, while Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) absence, the European strategy to invade Italia through Sicilia, to reduce notable tensions and try to reconcile Free french general Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) with pro-Vichy french general Henri Giraud (1879-1949).
Pierre Le Blavec, Jr - Copyright L'AvisDevantSoi (LAVDS)- March 25th 2007 - All rights reserved