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BFI Film Classics

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Cover of To be or Not to be

To be or Not to be

by Peter Barnes

Published 1 April 2002
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.