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The cycle of historical film and humor that is another story
ends and so does this Thursday 28 July at 21.45 hours, projecting the Municipal Archaeological Museum film To be or not be one of the great director Ernst Lubitsch's films, which uses satire to criticize the Nazi occupation of Warsaw during the Second World War.
Admission is free to fill seats.
Thus the programmed cycle is dismissed by the Department of Culture for Thursday nights in July, has projected a total of four films in the Museum gardens, reviewing the history of the cinema of humor.
The ingenious Life of Brian, set in the first century, opened the cycle continued to travel back in time to the twelfth century visitors were not born yesterday!, And stopping in the seventeenth century with La Kermesse Eroica.
To close, or may not be, which portrays one of the most important historical chapters of the twentieth century.
TO BE OR NOT BE (1942)
99 min.
Dir Ernst Lubitsch.
Cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart.
Synopsis: World War II (1939-1945).
Warsaw during the German occupation.
Professor Siletsky, a spy in the service of the Gestapo is about to deliver a list containing the names of the contributors to the Resistance.
Joseph Tura, Polish actor, performer of Hamlet and husband of Maria Tura, also known actress, try to avoid it.
With the help of the actors in his company should be run by the cruel Colonel Erhardt and Siletsky to enter the headquarters of the SS.
Next to "Ninotchka," the film's most famous film career of the great German director Ernst Lubitsch, established since its is a funny satire against the destructive and expansive policy of the Nazis.
Excellent performances from Jack Benny and Carole Lombard.
Ingenious Edwin Justus Mayer screenplay by adapting an idea of ​​Lubitsch himself with lucidly situations resolved by the elegant German conductor's baton.
The film strikes with insight and subtlety to all kinds of ideological and political totalitarianism and maintains a nice romantic subplot and remains one of the best examples of comedy (fresh, fun, agile, sparkling, corrosive, full of brilliant dialogue ...) never have been made in the history of cinema.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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