Germany - Lithuania - Poland
Jul. 07, 1960 - To be or not to be': is the title of an extraordinary film which was tunned in 1942 in Hollywood by Ernst Lubitsh; was not shown in Germany before now. Ernst Lubitsch, who works on political satires since 1939, directed his To be or not to be against the national socialism. The commencing words of the Hamlet monologue become the leading motive of a group of Polish actors who in 1939 study a play against the Gestapo continue their roles during the time of occupation in the uniforms of the German SS and the Army so as to realize the wishes of the Polish underground movement. Photo Shows A scene of the film with Charles Halton, Robert Stack and Jack Benny; The as SS men disguised actors have got a dreaded Gestapo agent into their trap, and they now discuss what to do with their enemy who is at the moment waiting in the next room
