And here it is at last, a film directed by Renzo Martinelli starring some great international and Polish cast. Although there have been certain plans, they somehow did not materialize for several reasons. For years, many history film buffs looked forward to its screen adaptation. Deserveably, the tribute in the form of the newest motion picture depicting this historic battle is a desirable achievement. Undeniably, 1683 saw the turning point for the western world and its identity. "The tears in her eyes are real.The title of the film, THE BATTLE OF VIENNA, rightly leads viewers to an assumption that they are going to see an epic production dealing with an important moment in the European history - the 1680s and the siege of Vienna. "They're not tears of glycerin shed by an actress," says Epstein. Lebeau had fled Paris with her husband, Marcel Dalio, just two years prior. As the refugees in the bar belt out their anthem, the film cuts to a closeup of the young French actress Madeleine Lebeau, tears streaming down her face. Later in the famous scene of the singing of La Marseillaise, Rick gives permission for the band to play the song of the resistance. In the scene with Dantine, for example, Rick's aid of young refugees is a sign he is not as cold-hearted as he leads people to believe. I'm the only cause I'm interested in."īut as the story progresses, cracks appear in that façade. Rick begins the film as an isolationist, telling Ilsa: "I'm not fighting for anything anymore, except myself. The character arc of Rick Blaine, played by Bogart, is a clear metaphor for the United States and foreign policy. "It's a propaganda film because the American public were not fully convinced of the moral imperative of fighting this war and the message is, this is a fight worth fighting." " Casablanca is a propaganda film," says Noah Isenberg, author of We'll Always Have Casablanca. Dalio was Jewish and he fled Paris in 1940 with his wife Madeleine Lebeau - who plays Yvonne in Casablanca. In France, Dalio was a star, known for his roles in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939). Marcel Dalio plays Emil, the croupier.Members of his family died in the death camps and he escaped to Hollywood, where he was known as "cuddles" and often cast in comedic roles. Before the war, Sakall was a Hungarian cabaret actor. Lorre began his career as a stage actor in Vienna and Berlin, and became internationally known with his performance in Fritz Lang's M (1931) and in America for his role in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Peter Lorre plays Ugarte, a customer at Rick's Cafe who steals from German couriers at the start of the film.Like Dantine, he escaped the Nazis only to find success portraying them on screen. Veidt was a German actor whose wife was Jewish. Conrad Veidt plays Nazi officer Major Strasser.There were several other European-born actors in Casablanca who had made it to Hollywood after fleeing the Nazis. "Having been the leader of the anti-Nazi youth movement, to then be playing Nazis in film." "It must have been incredibly hard for him emotionally," Niki Dantine told Radio Diaries. In other wartime films, Dantine would be cast as the villain, playing Nazi officers opposite Errol Flynn in Northern Pursuit (1943) and Escape in the Desert (1945).
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