The Great Dictator (1940) [NR]
Featuring:
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
Written by:
Charles Chaplin
Directed by:
Charles Chaplin
Release Date:
October 15, 1940
Original Title:
The Great Dictator
Alternate Titles:
Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator
De Dictator
De diktator
Der große Diktator
Diktatoren
Diktátor
Dokusaisha
El gran dictador
Le dictateur
O Grande Ditador
Ο μεγάλος δικτάτωρ
Велики диктатор
Великий диктатор
Великият диктатор
הדיקטטור הגדול
大独裁者
独裁者：1940
위대한 독재자
Genres:
Comedy | War
Production Companies:
Charles Chaplin Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
AU: G CZ: 12+ DE: 6 DK: A ES: A FI: S|K-7|K-12 FR: TP IT: T JP: G KR: ALL NL: AL PT: M/12 SE: 7|11 US: NR
Runtime: 125
Once again - the whole world laughs!
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish Tomainian barber who has been hospitalized since a WWI battle. Upon his release the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah with whom he begins a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, whom he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a desire for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of neighboring Bacteria. Ultimately Schultz, who has turned traitor against Hynkel's regime, and the barber may be able to join forces to take control of the situation, using Schultz's inside knowledge of the regime's workings and the barber's uncanny resemblance to one of those in power.
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