To Be or Not to Be (BFI Film Classics)
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Author(s)Peter Barnes
PublisherBritish Film Institute
ISBN / ASIN0851709192
ISBN-139780851709192
Sales Rank703,629
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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In To Be or Not to Be (1942), Ernest Lubitsch brought his legendary comic touch to the most unpromising situation: life in Nazi-occupied Poland. In this study, Peter Barnes considers what it is to make comedy out of tragedy.