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The Great Dictator (1940)

"During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz. Unfortunately, their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memories. After quite some years in the hospital, the amnesia patient gets released and reopens his old barber shop in the Jewish ghetto. But times have changed in the country of Tomania: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who accidentally looks very similar to the barber, has laid his merciless grip on the country, and the Jewish people are discriminated against. One day, the barber gets in trouble and is brought before a commanding officer, who turns out to be his old comrade Schultz. So, the ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile, Dictator Hynkel develops big plans, he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon, Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly, and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps. Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, who already has deployed his troops along the other border of the small country. Meanwhile, Schultz and the barber manage to escape, guised in military uniforms. As luck would have it, Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania, who listen eagerly on the radio." -imdb.com
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Adrienne Doherty
Posted 258 days ago
This film could not be more resonant than in the aftermath of these past 8 dark years, (2001-2009). It is a reminder that now, as in
1940, facism still haunts the world. Chaplin's films are all timeless
and essential testiments to what is is to be human. THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY APPRECIATE CHAPLIN'S ENDURING
CURRENCY.
Mike0193
Posted 260 days ago
Just saw this in my history class today. Gotta say this movie is greatly interesting and well made. It is actually hilarious too, and is about Hitler! Amazing movie, it's a classic. Shocking how it came out during the war too! O_o
Fran Russell
Posted 439 days ago
What a wonderful film, and a wonderful man who understood human nature on a fundametal level. A timeless and still relevent work of art, everyone in the world should see this film.
Thank you for this oppertunity to see it.
sandoro
Posted 461 days ago
Beautiful! Great movie.
patrick bleaney
Posted 519 days ago
masterful ; as powerful today as it was 68 years ago.chaplin was truly a great film maker and visionary.
larry randan
Posted 566 days ago
even though this movie is 68 years old the last speach at the end is more powerful NOW as it was then. I think that this movie should be showen in schools and then talked about .this is one of the most powerful movies ever made