To Be or Not to Be (1942)

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To Be or Not to Be

ORIGINAL TITLE

To Be or Not to Be

YEAR

1942

RUNNING TIME

99 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Ernst Lubitsch

SCREENWRITER

Edwin Justus Mayer

COMPOSER

Werner R. Heymann

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Rudolph Maté (B&W)

CAST

Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Stanley Ridges, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan, Charles Halton, George Lynn

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Romaine Film / Alexander Korda

AWARDS

1942: Nominated for Oscar: Best Soundtrack (Drama or Comedy)

GENRE

Comedy | Satire. II World War

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to meet in her dressing room during the play they are putting on (Hamlet). He leaves the theatre to see her just as Joseph starts the 'To be or not to be' soliloquy. Germany invades Poland and Sobinski has to leave for England, although he will have to return to Warsaw to disarticulate a conspiration against the underground movement.

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