A complex and timely satire with as much darkness as slapstick, Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be delicately balances humor and ethics.
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Director -
Ernst Lubitsch -
Producer -
Ernst Lubitsch -
Screenwriter -
Melchior Lengyel , Ernst Lubitsch , Edwin Justis Mayer -
Distributor -
Warner Home Vídeo , United Artists -
Production Co -
Ernst Lubitsch-Film -
Genre -
Comedy -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Mar 6, 1942, Original -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Oct 15, 2020 -
Runtime -
1h 39m