Poster The Great Dictator

Title: The Great Dictator

Original Title: The Great Dictator

Year: 1940

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: December 16 1940
  • United States: March 07 1941

Plot

A Jewish barber is wounded in World War I. Its aftermath will produce amnesia and when he finally leaves the hospital a few decades later realizes that his country, Tomania, is led by the evil dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who yearns to conquer the world and also attentive unjustifiably against the integrity of the people Jewish, and blamed for the bad situation that is crossing the country. The barber, unaware of the rise of Hynkel to the power and his politics, do not understand when the forces of assault painted the word "Jew" in his barbershop, and when he recriminates it, they begin to curse him violently, then Hannah, a girl who also lives in the ghetto, defends the barber. Both fall in love and must suffer the abuses of the dictatorship. However, one day, the members of the dictator's army, confused Hynkel with a Jew and sent him to a concentration camp. Meanwhile, the barber is also confused with the dictator.

Cast

Director:

Charles Chaplin Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin

Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell

Garbitsch

Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

Barber's Customer

Hank Mann

Hank Mann

Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit

Tiny Sandford

Tiny Sandford

Soldier in 1918 Tomainia

Soundtrack from 'The Great Dictator'

String Quintet in E, Op. 13 No. 5: Minuet

Compuesta por

Luigi Boccherini

Interpretada por

Played on piano a bit Charles Chaplin

Hungarian Dance No. 5

Compuesta por

Johannes Brahms

Prelude to 'Lohengrin' , Act I

Compuesta por

Richard Wagner

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