Durante la ocupación nazi de Polonia, un grupo de actores se ve envuelto en las actividades de un soldado polaco que intenta encontrar a un espía alemán.Durante la ocupación nazi de Polonia, un grupo de actores se ve envuelto en las actividades de un soldado polaco que intenta encontrar a un espía alemán.Durante la ocupación nazi de Polonia, un grupo de actores se ve envuelto en las actividades de un soldado polaco que intenta encontrar a un espía alemán.
- Nominado para 1 premio Óscar
- 2 premios y 2 nominaciones en total
- Polish RAF Pilot
- (sin acreditar)
- German Soldier
- (sin acreditar)
- Member of Audience at Performance of Hamlet
- (sin acreditar)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesWhen Jack Benny's father went to see this movie, he was outraged at the sight of his son in a Nazi uniform in the first scene and even stormed out of the theater. Jack convinced his father that it was satire, and he agreed to sit through all of it. His father ended up loving the film so much he saw it forty-six times.
- PifiasAlthough having Maria Tura give the cue line "To be or not to be" to the men in the audience she wishes to meet in her dressing room is a very funny premise of the film, it actually would be highly impractical for Maria to think she would have time to meet backstage. Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is only about 3-4 minutes long and Ophelia has the very next line in the play (in fact Hamlet announces her entrance at the end of his soliloquy), which would barely give Maria any time to meet men in her dressing room.
- Citas
Joseph Tura: [disguised as Professor Siletsky - speaking about Maria Tura] Her husband is that great, great Polish actor, Josef Tura. You've probably heard of him.
Colonel Ehrhardt: Oh, yes. As a matter of fact I saw him on the stage when I was in Warsaw once before the war.
Joseph Tura: Really?
Colonel Ehrhardt: What he did to Shakespeare we are now doing to Poland.
- Versiones alternativasIn Poland, a brief introduction was edited in. Polish actor Kazimierz Rudzki assured the audience that the movie was done with best intentions by their "American friends". At the time the movie screened in Poland, many people still lived in trauma from the events of World War II; few could find comedy in the German invasion of Poland, instead finding the movie in poor taste, offensive, or hard to swallow.
- ConexionesFeatured in Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
- Banda sonoraPolonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1, 'Military'
(1838) (uncredited)
Written by Frédéric Chopin
Orchestral arrangement by Aleksandr Glazunov
Heard during the opening and closing credits
When I was 16 (20 years ago, sigh...), this was re-released for a short time in a local art-house cinema, and my father insisted I go watching it with a friend. Well, teenagers don't normally line up to see 50 year old black and white comedies, but - man, was I glad I did!
This is a pitch black comedy that feels as fresh today as it must have then; in fact, this must have been kind of a shock in 1942. There are no cheesy clean characters or cringe-worthy lines: this is a firework of fast, witty dialogue with an edge and the sexiest, cleverest (and most morally ambiguous) female protagonist I have ever seen in a film before the "New Hollywod" era.
Even the structure and the way the story evolves are very modern; there are flashbacks and twists and turns that might be very common in contemporary films but must have seemed almost "avant-garde" at the time.
The biggest fun, of course, is how Lubitsch takes the pi** out of Hitler's blind, fanatic followers. I don't believe the Nazis have ever been mocked better than in this comedy masterpiece (and I only hope old Adolf has seen it, too). Mel Brooks' remake is not bad, but the original is simply killer.
See it, and then see it again (and again).
Priceless. 10 out of 10
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- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 3.270.000 US$
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 4.578.000 US$
- Duración1 hora 39 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1