| The Great Dictator | |||||
| Image (1940) | |||||
| Comedy, Drama | |||||
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| Charles Chaplin | Adenoid Hynkel/A Jewish Barber |
| Henry Daniell | Garbitsch |
| Carter DeHaven | Spook |
| Emma Dunn | Mrs. Jaeckel |
| Reginald Gardiner | Commander Schultz |
| Billy Gilbert | Field Marshal Herring |
| Paulette Goddard | Hannah |
| Grace Hayle | Madame Napaloni |
| Maurice Moscovitch | Mr. Jaeckel |
| Jack Oakie | Benzini Napaloni |
| Rudolph Anders | |
| Chester Conklin | |
| Eddie Dunn |
| Director | Charles Chaplin
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| Producer | Charlie Chaplin
Charles Chaplin Carter DeHaven |
| Writer | Charlie Chaplin
Charles Chaplin |
| Cinematography | Karl Struss
Roland Totheroh |
| Musician | Charles Chaplin
Meredith Willson Richard Wagner Johannes Brahms |
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The action takes place in 1918, during the First World War. A Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin), enlisted in the army of Tomania, works on a huge canon, although he has some difficulties with it. After a few other mishaps, he finishes the war wounded and with an amnesia. The years go by and Hynkel (Charles Chaplin), the dictator arrives at the head of the country. He promises to his people a revenge and begins to bully the Jews. Meanwhile, the barber goes out of the hospital and gets back to his shop. The barber look strangely like the dictator, and that will make him meets some problems… |
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