
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.


