To Be or Not to Be (1942)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Maria Tura -
Joseph Tura -
Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski -
Greenberg -
Rawitch -
Professor Siletsky -
Colonel Ehrhardt -
Bronski -
Producer Dobosh -
Actor-Adjutant -
Captain Schultz -
Anna -
General Armstrong -
Major Cunningham
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Director:
Ernst LubitschWriters:
Melchior Lengyel (original story), Edwin Justus Mayer (screenplay)All Cast & Crew
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Trivia
After the shooting of this film was finished, Carole Lombard told many people that this film was the happiest experience of her career from start to finish.
Quotes
Narrator:
Lubinski, Kubinski, Lominski, Rozanski, and Poznanski. We're in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. It's August 1939. Europe is still at peace. At the moment, life in Warsaw is going on as normally as ever. But, suddenly something seems to have happened!...
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During the flight to Warsaw, the wire holding the obviously model airplane is visible.
Alternate Versions
In the German version there are two changes made to the original score: first, with the Germans marching into Warsaw we hear the fanfares of the Deutsche Wochenschau (i.e. the German News Reel) instead of "normal" music. Then, during the opera scene we hear the Nazis singing all three verses of "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" in the background. However, in the Third Reich it was common (and was thus later inserted into the German sound track) only to play the verse one, directly leading into the "Horst Wessel Lied", which was something like the official party anthem.
Soundtracks
German National Anthem (Das Lied der Deutschen)(1797) (uncredited)
(Also called "Deutschland über alles")
Music by Franz Joseph Haydn (1797)
Lyrics by August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben (1841)
Sung by German military men
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Genres
Comedy | WarDetails
Release Date:
6 March 1942Language
English, German
Country of Origin
USABox Office
Gross USA:
$3,270,000
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$4,578,000
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