The Great Dictator (1940)

Name: The Great Dictator
Released: 1940
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell

• Movies, Comedy, War

• 125 min

8.3

Once again - the whole world laughs!

Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Casting: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann, Florence Wright, Eddie Gribbon, Rudolph Anders, Eddie Dunn, Nita Pike, George Lynn, Wheeler Dryden, Fred Aldrich, Richard Alexander, Sig Arno, William Arnold, Joe Bordeaux, Don Brodie, Gino Corrado, John Davidson, Max Davidson, Lew Davis, Pat Flaherty, Bud Geary, Sam Harris, Eddie Hart, Leyland Hodgson, William Irving, Charles Irwin, Ethelreda Leopold, Torben Meyer, Bert Moorhouse, Nellie V. Nichols, Manuel París, Jack Perrin, Lucien Prival, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Tiny Sandford, Hans Schumm, Harry Semels, Charles Sullivan, Carl Voss, Leo White, Harry Wilson, Hans Conried, Francis Ernest Drake, Francesca Santoro, Leonard Walker, Finn Zirzow, Wyn Ritchie Evans, James Carlisle, Oliver Cross, Herschel Graham
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1940-10-15
Status: Released

Tags: amnesia, nazi, hairdresser, propaganda, world war i, dictator, jewish ghetto, fascism, world war ii, national socialism, national socialist party, satire, speech, black and white, barbershop, anti war, fictitious country

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.