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In a film by this director, a woman remains stone-faced at a joke about a man who orders coffee without cream but breaks into wild laughter when her companion falls backward (15[1])into a table. In a film by this director, three bumbling foreigners think they’ve recognized their contact at a train station until that man gives a Nazi salute. A film by this director includes the exchange “Do you want to be (*) alone, comrade?—No” as a joke on Grand Hotel. This director’s comedy about a Soviet agent who falls in love with a Parisian dandy featured the tagline “Garbo Laughs!” (10[2])In another film by this director, a ham actor pretends to be “Concentration Camp Ehrhardt” in occupied Warsaw. For 10 points, what German directed Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be? ■END■

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