When Ernst Lubitsch made the rip-roaring comedy To Be Or Not To Be, about a Polish theatre troupe under Nazi occupation, playing their part for the resistance and “acting” to save their lives, he probably had little idea that his timely 1942 film was paralleling the real-life heroics of another group of Polish actors, who came together to form the “Rhapsody” theatre, playing their part by putting on underground plays as acts of cultural resistance and “acting” to save the identity and tradition of the Polish people. Amongst these actors, who would perform clandestinely behind closed doors before an audience of friends and colleagues, was Karol Wojtyla – the man who would one day become Pope John Paul II…
The "Recordatio" Cinema Club 