Dr. Frederick Bronski
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To Be or Not to Be is a 1983 American war comedy film directed by Alan Johnson, produced by Mel Brooks, and starring Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, and José Ferrer.
Dec 16, 1983 · To Be or Not to Be: Directed by Alan Johnson. With Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner, Zale Kessler, Jack Riley. At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Alan Johnson
- 1983-12-16
To Be or Not to Be. Frederick Bronski (Mel Brooks) and his adulterous wife, Anna (Anne Bancroft), are a pair of hammy actors running a low-rent theater in Warsaw, Poland. When the Nazis...
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- Alan Johnson
- PG
- Mel Brooks
In "To Be or Not To Be," Brooks combines a backstage musical with a wartime romance and comes up with an eclectic comedy that races off into several directions, usually successfully. The movie co-stars Brooks and his wife, Anne Bancroft , working together for the first time on screen as Frederick and (Anna) Bronski, the impresarios of a brave ...
Acting couple Joseph (Jack Benny) and Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) are managing a theatrical troupe when the Nazis invade Poland. Maria is having an affair with Lieutenant Sobinski (Robert Stack ...
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- Carole Lombard
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Comedy
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft star in this comedy as actors trying their bumbling best to save the Polish underground from the Nazis. 384 IMDb 6.8 1 h 47 min 1983. X-Ray PG.
Sobinski is in England with a band of Polish resisters when he is sent back to Poland on a mission to save the lives of all the Polish Underground. He goes to Anna after parachuting into the country, and the rest of the movie unfolds with a comedic air as Sobinski, the Bronskis, and the theater troupe try to get out of Poland alive. —Anna-Kat
