The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator

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20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish Tomainian barber who has been hospitalized since a WWI battle. Upon his release the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Great Dictator:

Charlie Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Jack Oakie
Reginald Gardiner
Henry Daniell
Billy Gilbert

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20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish Tomainian barber who has been hospitalized since a WWI battle. Upon his release the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah with whom he begins a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, whom he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a desire for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of neighboring Bacteria. Ultimately Schultz, who has turned traitor against Hynkel's regime, and the barber may be able to join forces to take control of the situation, using Schultz's inside knowledge of the regime's workings and the barber's uncanny resemblance to one of those in power.

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New York Times - 10/10 by Bosley CrowtherNow that the waiting is over and the shivers of suspense at an end, let the trumpets be sounded and the banners flung against the sky.
Combustible Celluloid - 10/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonIt may be Chaplin's greatest work, even if it's not his most personal.
Cinema-stache - 9/10 by Rob VauxThe lessons remain, and the strength of his statement still inspires his descendants - professional or otherwise - to follow his example.
Film.com - 9/10 by William GossThe first full-blown talkie from the biggest star of the silent era, complete with a message that Chaplin couldn't have sent more loudly or clearly.
Panorama - 9/10 by Louis-Jérôme CloutierThe Great Dictator mérite amplement de faire partie des éléments clés du cinéma.
Filmcritic.com - 8/10 by Chris Barsanti...stared evil in the face long before the rest of Hollywood even thought it was possible.
Empire Magazine - 8/10 by David ParkinsonThough the slapstick may seem tired now, there are moments of greatness.
BBC.com - 8/10 by Jamie RussellCharlie Chaplin's first talkie, made over a decade after the introduction of sound, stands as a brave and controversial piece of filmmaking.
Hollywood Reporter - 8/10 by Glenn AbelThe film remains controversial to this day.
Village Voice - 7/10 by Michael AtkinsonLike all major Chaplin works, Dictator was a cheaply, but methodically, made film, a cardboard act of humanist defiance, and, thanks to its purity of purpose, the cheesier the jokes get, the harder they land.

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