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    The Great Dictator

    G1941 · Comedy · 2h 8m

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    • Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1941 · Nominated

    • Academy Award Outstanding Production 1941 · Nominated

    • Academy Award Actor 1941 · Nominated

    • Academy Award Music (Original Score) 1941 · Nominated

    • Academy Award Writing (Original Screenplay) 1941 · Nominated

  1. The Great Dictator Jump to Academy Awards, USA (5) Satellite Awards (1) Jussi Awards (1) National Board of Review, USA (2) National Film Preservation Board, USA (1) New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1) Kinema Junpo Awards (1) Online Film & Television Association (1)

  2. The Great Dictator. The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-war political satire black comedy 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 ...

    • Charlie Chaplin
    • October 15, 1940 (New York City)
  3. 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.

    • Charles Chaplin
    • 332
    • 2 min
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  5. Apr 12, 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
  6. Feb 5, 2021 · It's hardly surprising that Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was banned in Germany, and in every country occupied by Germany, in 1940. A film that mocked Adolf Hitler was never going to be the ...

  7. Comedy In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so much like Hynkel that he could be his twin.

  8. Sep 27, 2007 · A newly restored 35mm print of "The Great Dictator" will play Friday through Oct. 4 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Showtimes: Friday and Monday-Thursday at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.; Saturday at 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 pm and 5:30 p.m. Reviews of "City Lights" and "Duck Soup" are also in the Great Movies Collection.

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