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Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be

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A Tale of Two Cities, Part I

The play is about a young pilot who falls in love with the wife of an actor playing hamlet. When he begins his soliloquy, to be or not to be, she arranges for him to meet her husband at their dressing room. He gets up and leaves but returns night after night because he misses sebinskik so much. The story ends when it's revealed that poland was attacked without warning by Germany.

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