The director of the play, Liu Beiqian, was a German who made this satirical Nazi comedy in the United States in 1942, before the end of World War II.
How to describe this film, one link after another, full of conflicts, crisp and clean, the rhythm is compact and orderly, and the language reveals a non-vulgar humor from the depth, that is, exquisite and hilarious. 79 years ago, this film ruthlessly crushed many of today's unsure comedies.
In 1939, a drama troupe in Warsaw had a group of funny male actors and a charming actress, Madame Tula.
At the beginning of the story, the repertory theatre intends to make a German Nazi-themed "Gestapo". And the actors who play Hitler are always criticized by the director because they add lines themselves.
Just as the play was about to be staged, the government notified a halt, claiming that although it had artistic value, it would anger Hitler.
The repertory theater continued to stage Hamlet.
Mr. Tula and Mrs. Tula are a couple and also lead actors.
Mr. Tula noticed that someone had sent flowers to Mrs. Tula for three consecutive days and asked angrily. Madame Tula's seemingly innocent heart blossomed.
When Mr. Tula came on stage to perform, Madame Tula had expected flowers from the pilot lieutenant in the second row of the theater. At the same time, she also received a letter from the lieutenant, sincerely hoping to meet Madame Tula.
Madame Tula thinks it is wrong to ignore the people who buy tickets to see the show because of admiration, and of course she loves Mr. Tula very much.
So she wrote to the lieutenant, and when Hamlet was on the stage reciting, survival or destruction, she came to me in the powder room.
The lieutenant and Madame Tula met happily. And meet for the next day to play together.
But Mr. Tula was so sad that someone got up and left the table while he was performing. Madame Tula comforted Mr. Tula.
The next day, Madame Tula and the lieutenant returned from a visit.
Performed in the evening, when Mr. Tula reads, when survival or destruction... The lieutenant got up again and left.
The lieutenant came to Madame Tula's dressing room and said affectionately to Madame Tula, I want to take you away, and I want to have a good talk with Mr. Tula, because you love me.
Mrs. Tula, oh oh no, no, no, I am in love with Mr. Tula...
It was at this time that Hitler launched a bombing campaign against Warsaw and the war began. The lieutenant had to rush to the battlefield, and everyone was a little incredulous about the war that was at hand, while Mr. Tula was still immersed in the sadness of the man who had turned away for the second time.
In Britain, a group of warriors surrounded the returning Warsaw professor, hoping to help them bring home the book, and the professor gladly agreed.
The lieutenant asked the professor to help him bring a message to Madame Tula, saying that she would understand whether to survive or perish. Although the professor agreed, he did not know Madame Tula, and the lieutenant became suspicious, for Madame Tula was a household name in Warsaw, and her pictures were in the newspapers, on cigarettes, on soap boxes.
If he had been a Nazi spy, the families of those fighters would have been in danger.
The superiors sent lieutenants to airdrop back to Warsaw, and the lieutenant returned to Warsaw, intending to bring news to the Warsaw Underground Party and ask them to stop the professors who were about to arrive in Warsaw.
However, they were chased by the Gestapo, and the lieutenant hid in the house of Madame Tula, who helped the lieutenant to pass the news to the underground party.
As soon as Madame Tula returned to her doorstep, she was taken away by the Gestapo.
It turned out that the professor, who had been taking the train back to Warsaw, changed to a plane and returned to Warsaw early.
The professor was indeed a Nazi spy, and she invited Mrs. Tula to tell her the message that the lieutenant had given her, and most importantly, to plot against Mrs. Tula and use her status as an actor to collect intelligence for the Nazis.
Madame Tula could only cope with the professor and said to go home and think about it. The professor invited her to dinner.
At this time, the lieutenant was sleeping at Mrs. Tula's house, and Mr. Tula returned home to find that the lieutenant, the man who had left twice ahead of schedule when he was acting, was furious.
While the two were arguing, Madame Tula returned home, told the lieutenant that the professor had returned home, and invited her to dinner, and the lieutenant said you must go. Mr. Tula, on the other hand, was already confused and asked them what was going on.
Oh, my husband is in danger in Warsaw now, we want to be patriotic, we have to get rid of the professor tonight, otherwise he will go to the Gestapo headquarters early tomorrow morning to send the list. Husband don't say that some are not.
Mr. Tula is very confused, I love the country, and I love my slippers.
Mr. Tula said, "I'll go get rid of the professor, and then you two have to explain what's going on with you."
Madame Tula came to the professor's lodging, and Madame Tula chatted with the professor with great charm, at this time an actor in the troupe played the role of Gestapo, found the professor, and told the professor that Colonel Ehurt wanted to see you immediately.
After the professor left, Mrs. Tula also wanted to leave, but the Gestapo, who was watching the gate, said that he had not received instructions from the professor and could not leave.
The professor took the list to the Gestapo headquarters, which had been transformed by the Repertory Theatre.
Mr. Tula, disguised as Colonel Ehurt, managed to get the list and made a copy of the original list.
Everything went well, but when the professor mentioned Madame Tula, mentioned the lieutenant's message to Madame Tula, and mentioned that it was a message of love, Mr. Tula lost his acting skills and spoke incoherently.
The professor found the horse's foot, took the opportunity to escape, and was shot on stage by the other actors of the troupe. They hid the professor's body in the troupe.
But they still had to get a copy of the list, so Mr. Tula once again disguised himself as a professor and went to the place where the professor was staying.
Pushing open the door, there was a real Gestapo in the room, and an anxious Lady Tula.
The Gestapo told the professor that Colonel Ehrhard was now going to make an appointment with the professor.
Madame Tula was anxious about her husband and was about to go to the Gestapo headquarters.
Mr. Tula, on the other hand, asked his wife about her and the lieutenant.
Before leaving, Mr. Tula told his wife to burn a copy of the list in the professor's luggage.
Mr. Tula came to the Gestapo headquarters, and after the two had a hot conversation, the Colonel inquired about the warsaw underground organization.
Mr. Tula gave the names of the two leaders of the underground organization, but the colonel questioned his subordinates, but had been shot a few days earlier.
Mr. Tula was very angry and said that The British should award you a medal.
The Colonel, in a cold sweat, knew that the Fuehrer had come to Warsaw, and the Colonel, fearing the Professor's complaint, persuaded the Professor to return to England as soon as possible and would prepare Thursday plane tickets for him.
Mr. Tula said, you had better prepare two, I will take Madame Tula with me, I have turned her back, she will be my right-hand man.
The Colonel didn't quite believe in women.
Mr. Tula said that you will believe this woman when you see her.
On Tuesday, the colonel met with Madame Tula, who thought she was talking about espionage. I told the Colonel first that I was very excited about this job.
The Colonel, on the other hand, told Madame Tula that the Professor was dead and that the Gestapo, in order to welcome the Fuehrer, planned to arrange a show in the theater tonight, only to find the Professor's body while cleaning the theater.
Madame Tula was anxious, and he knew that Mr. Tula would come to the Colonel in a moment, and she had to stop it.
And the Colonel was still pestering Madame Tula, wanting to ask her to have dinner with her.
Madame Tula was finally relieved and looked around for her husband.
Unsuspectingly, Mr. Tula continues to play the role of professor and leisurely comes to the Colonel's office.
The Colonel's office stood several Gestapos, and he knowingly asked the professor to go to the back room and wait.
In the back room, Mr. Tula saw the professor's body. He was also very calm, pulled out his pocket, saw a fake beard, counted his heart, and installed a fake beard on the dead professor.
The Colonel believed that the dead professor was a fake professor. Asked Mr. Tula if he would meet with the Fuehrer to file a complaint. Mr. Tula comforted the Colonel.
The Colonel was now expecting the Professor to leave Warsaw as soon as possible.
Mr. Tula's brother actors, unable to watch Mr. Tula arrested, rushed into the Colonel's office disguised as the Führer's security guard. One pulled off Mr. Tula's false beard, claiming that the Colonel was in a dereliction of duty and that they were going to personally hand him over to the Fuehrer.
The Colonel was dumbfounded, who else could he trust in the future?
When a group of actors came to their hiding place, Mr. Tula said with regret that I had already obtained two tickets to England, but now, it is estimated that in less than 24 hours, they will find out the truth. We'll turn into street rats.
The director spoke, then we can only act again.
In the evening, at the Grand Theatre, the Fuehrer was seated to enjoy the show, but at this time there was a commotion in the corridors of the theater.
A local rebel from Warsaw rushed out and was taken down on the spot by the SS in the corridor, and he finally uttered the lines from his coveted Shakespeare's masterpiece The Merchant of Venice.
Hitler appeared in Warsaw, and the security guards at Hitler's side in Warsaw claimed that it was no longer safe and expected the Führer to leave.
The Fuehrer agreed, and the security guards took over the rebels. He also ordered the SS present to escort the Fuehrer away and head straight for the airport.
The funny actors finally put the "Gestapo" that had not been rehearsed before and did not perform, and performed successfully in the corridor of the theater.
Mr. Tula intends to pick up his wife, Madame Tula, but finds that his beard is lost and he cannot go upstairs to pick up Madame Tula. Only Hitler himself went upstairs to pick it up.
Madame Tula, who was waiting in the room, waited for the Colonel, who pestered Madame Tula and wanted to have dinner with her.
Madame Tula has repeatedly stated that she has an appointment tonight, but the Colonel is not going to take care of her, so who else can have me here? I'll give you a ball."
Suddenly, Hitler pushed the door in and saw the Colonel and Madame Tula, and this time Hitler in Warsaw finally opened his mind, his acting skills reached its peak, he took a look at the Colonel, turned and left. Madame Tula chased them out.
The colonel who stayed alone in the house shouted a million times in his heart, why don't you tell me that the object of your date is the Fuehrer, why... Shooting himself.
The actors boarded the plane smoothly, the plane took off, hitler ordered the two German pilots who were flying the plane to jump off the plane, and the two pilots jumped without saying a word.
The lieutenant flew straight to England with the actors.