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    The Great Dictator

    G1941 · Comedy · 2h 8m

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  1. The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-war, political satire, and black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin ...

  2. The Great Dictator: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell. 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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    • Comedy, Drama, War
    • Charles Chaplin
    • 1941-03-07
  3. The Great Dictator is a masterpiece that isn't just a delightful comedy and a grim agitprop drama, but a spookily accurate insight into Hitler's psychology. "He was a visionary," said Costa-Gavras ...

  4. Jul 20, 2024 · The Great Dictator, American comedy film, released in 1940, that Charlie Chaplin both acted in and directed. Satirizing Adolf Hitler and Nazism and condemning anti-Semitism, it was Chaplin’s most successful film at the box office. The movie earned five Academy Award nominations, including one for best picture.

    • Lee Pfeiffer
  5. Sep 27, 2007 · Charlie Chaplin satirizes Hitler and Mussolini in this classic comedy, but his speech at the end undermines the humor. Read Ebert's analysis of the film's plot, gags, and historical context.

  6. The Great Dictator was Chaplin’s first film with dialogue. Chaplin plays both a little Jewish barber, living in the ghetto, and Hynkel, the dictator ruler of Tomainia. In his autobiography Chaplin quotes himself as having said: “One doesn’t have to be a Jew to be anti Nazi. All one has to be is a normal decent human being.”

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  8. May 24, 2011 · Charlie Chaplin's controversial masterpiece satirizes Hitler and his own comic persona in his first talkie. The film features a new restoration, commentary, documentary, essays, and more.

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