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To Be or Not to Be (1942)

NOT RATED Comedy

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91%

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8.2/10

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Set in Warsaw, Poland, during and after the German invasion of 1939, this comedy-drama mixed dedicated Nazis, ham actors, and earnest pilots and resistance fighters into a surprisingly (and, in 1942, uncomfortably) entertaining topical satire.

  • Directed by
    Ernst Lubitsch
  • Written by , ,
  • Starring
    Rudolph Anders
    ,
    Lionel Atwill
    ,
    Paul Barrett
    ,
    Jack Benny
    ,
    Sven Hugo Borg
    ,
    Felix Bressart
    ,
    Peter Caldwell
    ,
    Alec Craig
    ,
    Helmut Dantine
    ,
    Leslie Denison
    ,
    Tom Dugan
    ,
    James Finlayson
    ,
    James Gillette
    ,
    Charles Halton
    ,
    Halliwell Hobbes
    ,
    Leyland Hodgson
    ,
    Olaf Hytten
    ,
    Charles Irwin
    ,
    John Kellogg
    ,
    Adolf E. Licho
    ,
    George Lynn
    ,
    Miles Mander
    ,
    John Meredith
    ,
    Maurice Murphy
    ,
    Russ Powell
    ,
    Frank Reicher
    ,
    Otto Reichow
    ,
    Stanley Ridges
    ,
    Gene Rizzi
    ,
    Sig Ruman
    ,
    Hans Schumm
    ,
    Robert Stack
    ,
    Roland Varno
    ,
    Ernö Verebes
    ,
    Henry Victor
    ,
    Armand 'Curly' Wright
    ,
    Wolfgang Zilzer
    ,
    Maude Eburne
    ,
    Carole Lombard
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