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The Great Dictator

Chaplin, Charlie
http://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-great-dictator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/

Year Published:  1940  
Resource Type:  Film/Video

Ruthless dictator Adenoid Hynkel attempts to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution within Hynkel's regime.

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The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire black comedy film written, directed, and produced by Charlie Chaplin, who also starred in both leading roles as Adenoid Hynkel and the Jewish barber. As the only major Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this was Chaplin's first true sound film.

The film advanced a stirring condemnation of the German and Italian dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, as well as fascism, antisemitism, and Nazism. At the time of its first release, the United States was still at peace with Nazi Germany and neutral during what were the early days of World War II.

Popular among audiences, The Great Dictator became Chaplin's most commercially successful film. Modern critics have praised it as a historically significant film, one of the greatest comedy films ever made, and an important work of satire. In 1997, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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