To be or not to be

To be or not to be

DVD - 2013

"As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled."--Container.

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Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 > Poland > Drama.
Theater > Poland > Drama.
Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945 > Drama.
War films.
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Dark comedy films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
War films
Feature films
Comedy films
Dark comedy films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection [2013]
Language
English
Corporate Authors
United Artists Corporation, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Corporate Authors
United Artists Corporation (-), Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors
Ernst Lubitsch, 1892-1947 (film director), Alexander Korda, 1893-1956 (film producer), Menyhért Lengyel, 1880-1974 (screenwriter), Edwin Justus Mayer, 1896-1960 (actor), Carole Lombard, 1908-1942 (writer of added text), Jack Benny, 1894-1974, Robert Stack, 1919-2003, Felix Bressart, 1890-1949, Lionel Atwill, 1885-1946, Stanley Ridges, 1892-1951, Sig Rumann, 1884-1967, Tom Dugan, 1889-1955, Jean-Jacques Bernard, 1888-1972, Geoffrey O'Brien, 1948-
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; Full screen
Item Description
Full screen (1.37:1).
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942.
Special features: Disc 1: Audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat. Disc 2: Pinkus's shoe palace (1916 film starring Ernst Lubitsch as a slapstick Jewish sterotype); Lubitsch le patron (a 2010 French documentary written by film scholar N.T. Binh and directed by Jean-Jacques Bernard, traces the career of filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch); The Screen Guild Theater (two episodes of the radio anthology series: Variety (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1943)). Booklet features an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a 1942 New York Times op-ed by Lubitsch.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Format
DVD; NTSC; Region 1; PCM mono.
Production Credits
Production designed by Vincent Korda ; photographed by Rudolph Maté ; musical score by Werner R. Heymann ; interior decoration, Julia Heron ; costumes, Irene ; film editor, Dorothy Spencer.
ISBN
9781604657616
Contents unavailable.

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