"... In Tomainia the dictator Adenoid Hynkel unleashes repression against the Jews. The beautiful Hannah and her lover, a barber who bears a striking resemblance to Hynkel, flee. The barber, first captured, escapes from the concentration camp and by chance bumps into the real dictator and is arrested on his behalf. From the Führer's microphones, the barber gives the world a long message of peace and hope..."
The Great Dictator, the film directed by Chaplin in 1940, a lashing and comic satire of Nazi-Fascism, Hitler and Mussolini who were attacking Europe at that time, was to be called “The Dictator”, but Paramount owned the rights to that title and did not intend to deprive itself of them. Besides being a beautiful and funny film, it was a unique phenomenon: the most famous and beloved clown of his time openly defied the man who had caused the most horrors and suffering in modern times. And something was alarming and strange in the physical resemblance between Chaplin and Hitler. The great dictator was Chaplin's first spoken film. It was his first political, propagandistic film: no one in Hollywood had made a film so openly, explicitly anti-Nazi until then. The United States had not yet entered the Second World War and was home to many fascist movements; there was a widespread belief in the country that it should not participate in the war. The “premiere” was on October 14, 1940, in Los Angeles, on October 15 in New York. The Great Dictator is one of the masterpieces of the history of cinema.
The great dictator: directed by Charles Chaplin. With Jack Oakie, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner. Comedy, USA, 1940, duration 126 minutes.
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