"Casablanca" Forever. The Story of the Creation and Life of a Cinematic Masterpiece

““ Casablanca ”is“ not just a film ”,” said Umberto Eco somehow, “this is "cinema".”
The film, released in 1942, received an Oscar in the categories Best Picture, Best Director and Best Scenario and demonstrated the unforgettable game by Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and the entire cast as a whole. The book of the historian of the Kinoi Aisenberg movie “Kasablanka Forever” is a story saturated with details about the birth of the film, about the myths and realities of the process of its creation, as well as about the reasons why he still remains so beloved.
Based on archival research and interviews with filmmakers, relatives of the members of the acting and the film crew and fans of the film, the author explores the transformation of the unexpected play into a classic scenario, describes the influence of the Second World War and censorship on the process of creating “Casablanca” and explains what In the way the film continues to delight the audience and remain an unchanged part of the mass culture after almost eighty years after release