Fascism On Film - Episode 14 - To Be Or Not To Be
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The episode discusses the film 'To Be Or Not To Be' and its portrayal of fascism in relation to historical events.
Welcome to the fourteenth episode of our ongoing series: Fascism On Film. Each episode of this series, the Holmes Brothers look and review a film that has to do with fascism. During the episodes, the brothers look and see how the aspects and portrayal of fascism shown in the film relate to current and/or past events. On this Fascism on Film episode, the Holmes Brothers along with author and friend of the podcast Chris Geier discuss To Be Or Not To Be, a black comedy set in Nazi Occupied Poland directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A troupe of actors living in war torn Warsaw get caught up in an espionage plot. Robert Stack who plays Lt. Stanislav Sobinski, a Polish airman, suspects that Professor Alexander Siletsky is a Nazi spy pretending to be a Polish Resistance worker. Upon returning to Warsaw, Sobinski reunites with Maria Tura (Carole Lombard, in what sadly became her final onscreen role) a famous Polish actress that he is smitten with and her husband Joseph who is also an actor. Joseph and his talented group of actors put on a scheme to trick Siletsky and the Nazis. Hopefully it all goes to plan and they get out of Poland. You'll have to watch the film and see. Chris is a former…
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