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Opening title music?

posted 11 years ago by freinth1
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During the opening titles the music starts off quite unfamiliar to me but as soon as the name of the movie "To Be or Not To Be" comes up, the music launches into a familiar classical tune. However, I just can't work out what it is! Does anyone know? Thanks.

[–] tmaj48 11 years ago

Chopin's Polonaise in A Major, Opus 40, #3 ("Military" Polonaise).

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

[–] freinth1 11 years ago

Ah! Thanks!

[–] vikkiwest 11 years ago

The real reason they played the "Polonaise" would have been known to the original audience . . . Polish national radio played that continuously during the seige of Warsaw until the city fell to the Nazis! It was a patriotic gesture of defiance by the Poles!

"Forget it, Jake - - it's Chinatown!"