Frederick is able to fool Erhardt by naming recently executed prisoners as the leaders of the Polish Underground. Gestapo Captain Schultz is also there to bring Siletski to Colonel Erhardt's office. This forces Fredrick to pose as Siletski to retrieve a copy of the list and get Anna out of the hotel. Siletski tries to escape through the theater, but Sobinski shoots him down. Frederick successfully retrieves the list from Siletski but unwittingly blows his cover when he reacts to news of Anna's liaisons with Sobinski. Actors dressed as Gestapo members interrupt Anna's date with Siletski and take him to "headquarters," the Bronski Theater. Returning home, Anna explains the situation to Fredrick and Sobinski, and realizing that Siletski and Gestapo leader Colonel Erhardt have never met, they decide that Frederick will pose as Erhardt.
Convinced that it has no military significance, he invites Anna to return for dinner. Sobinski air drops into Warsaw and meets up with Anna and Fredrick, who have been forced to move in with Anna's dresser Sasha after their home was turned into Gestapo Headquarters.Īfter arriving in Warsaw, Siletski has Anna brought to his hotel room to ask her about Sobinski's personal message. He consults with British intelligence, who realize that Siletski is a Nazi sympathizer who intends to deliver the names to the Gestapo. However, when Siletski fails to recognize Anna Bronski's name, despite having claimed to have lived in Warsaw, Sobinski becomes suspicious. Siletski, who tells them he is returning to Poland and talks them into giving him messages to family members and members of the Polish Underground.
Their fling is cut short by the Nazi invasion of Poland, forcing Sobinski to return to his squadron.Īs the Bronski Theater struggles to remain open in spite of Gestapo censorship, Sobinski and the rest of the Royal Air Force's Polish squadron commiserate with Polish radio broadcaster Dr. This leads her to begin a flirtation with bomber pilot Andre Sobinski, who she invites to come to her dressing room when Fredrick's begins the " To be, or not to be" speech from Hamlet. Despite the relative success the show receives, the majority of the cast are annoyed by the fact that Fredrick nitpicks who does what, in particular his wife Anna, whom he regularly tries to undermine despite her getting the lion's share of audience praise. The film is a remake of the 1942 film of the same name.įredrick Bronski runs a large ensemble show out of Warsaw. The screenplay was written by Ronny Graham and Thomas Meehan, based on the original story by Melchior Lengyel, Ernst Lubitsch and Edwin Justus Mayer. 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.
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