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While impersonating a different man, the protagonist of this film awkwardly repeats a nickname given to that man, only for that man to later have the same reaction when he meets the protagonist. (15[2])Early in this film, two characters express discontent (15[1])with playing the role of a spear carrier. A double agent in this film reveals the location of his confidential mission in order to get a list of his subordinates’ loved ones. This film opens with stunned civilians watching (*) Adolf Hitler walk around Warsaw in August 1939. In this film, an actor is appalled when a man exits the theater during the actor’s speech, (10[1])without knowing that the other man is leaving to meet his wife in her dressing room. For 10 points, name this Ernst Lubitsch film titled for a six-word Shakespearean (10[1])phrase that Joseph Tura delivers while performing a famous soliloquy as Hamlet. ■END■

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