SYNOPSIS

Charlie Chaplin has a dual role in this film, his first with dialogue.

He plays a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator with such satirical impact that it counterbalanced the oratory of Adolf Hitler.

Particularly delectable comic scenes are Hynkel’s balletic “pas de deux” with a globe, and a cream cake fight between Hynkel and Napoloni, the dictator of Bacteria.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

December 16, 1940

DIRECTOR

Charlie Chaplin

WRITER

Charlie Chaplin

COMPANY

United Artists

GENRE

Comedy, Drama, War

CERT

PG

RUNTIME

125 minutes

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