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New page: '''''The Great Dictator''''' is a 1940 film, starring and written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, that satirizes Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It was Charlie Chaplin's first "t...
'''''The Great Dictator''''' is a 1940 film, starring and written and directed by [[Charlie Chaplin]], that satirizes [[Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Nazi]]s. It was Charlie Chaplin's first "talkie", and has him playing a dual role as Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of the fictional country of Tomania, and as a [[Jewish]] barber, who is never named. It is notable for being an early anti-Nazi picture, and at the end of the film, Chaplin (as the barber) makes an impassioned speech against dictatorship and a plea for democracy everywhere.
''The Great Dictator'' was nominated for five [[Academy Awards]], including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (for Chaplin).
==Links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/ The Great Dictator] at the Internet Movie Database
[[Category:Movies]]
''The Great Dictator'' was nominated for five [[Academy Awards]], including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (for Chaplin).
==Links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/ The Great Dictator] at the Internet Movie Database
[[Category:Movies]]