The Great Dictator

Directed by
Charles Chaplin
Duration
124 min.
Year
1940

This ability to stage the most odious events in history and still make people laugh is probably the work of only a few. This is the case of Charles Chaplin in The Great Dictator, where the burlesque actor of genius incarnates the character of Hynkel, a perfect caricature of Hitler. Chaplin had already denounced the absurdity of the First World War with humor in Shoulder Arms in 1918. Here, he weaves a comic web around the threat of Nazism.

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