Curtiz

“No country should change a man's character.”

In 1942, as Michael Curtiz (Ferenc Lengyel) nears the end of shooting Casablanca, Mr. Johnson (Declan Hannigan) arrives with a request from the US government: push the film's propaganda message harder, and help turn public opinion toward the war in Europe. Tamás Yvan Topolánszky sets the story in Hollywood. Curtiz, a Hungarian who left Europe behind, is asked to fold his own homeland's troubles into someone else's story.