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.

• 1 hr 39 min
• Directed by

  Ernst Lubitsch
• Written by Melchior Lengyel, Ernst Lubitsch, Edwin Justus Mayer

• 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