The Great Dictator
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1940
2h 5m
NR
English
Comedy, War
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Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Cast
Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania...
Hannah
Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacte...
Commander Schultz
Garbitsch
Field Marshal Herring
Madame Napaloni
Spook
Mr. Jaeckel
Mrs. Jaeckel
Mr. Mann
Mr. Agar
Barber's Customer
Jewish Woman
Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit
Blonde Secretary
Tomanian Storm Trooper
Tomanian Commandant at Osterlich / ...
Whitewashed Storm Trooper
Secretary
Commander of Storm Troopers
Heinrich Schtick / Translator (voic...
Soldier (uncredited)
Tomainian Prison Guard in 1918 (unc...
Compact Parachute Inventor (uncredi...
Directed By: Charlie Chaplin
Written By: Charlie Chaplin
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wizzardss
4 years ago
In September 1939, six days after Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, Charlie Chaplin began filming his next feature. Drawing on the public perception of the similarities between himself and Adolf Hitler - not just his toothbrush moustache but also their upbringings - Chaplin sought to directly pa More
drqshadow
/10 5 years ago
Charlie Chaplin's famously prescient tear-down of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, filmed at the very outset of the second world war (England actually vowed to ban the film due to an early policy of Nazi appeasement, though their attitude flipped before opening day) and released before anyone real More
manicure
CONTAINS SPOILERS/10 4 years ago
Chaplin’s first film with full-fledged dialogues is an effective satire of nazism and totalitarianism in general. Its historical value is impressive if we think it was shot right before World War II, at a time there was not nearly as much information on Hitler and his regime as we have now.
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