The Great Dictator
Completed
"Once again - the whole world laughs!"
1940-10-15
8.295
en 125mComedyWar
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Producer
Charlie Chaplin
Original Music Composer
Meredith Willson
Art Direction
J. Russell Spencer
Original Music Composer
Charlie Chaplin
Director of Photography
Roland Totheroh
Sound Designer
Percy Townsend
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 criterion fictitious country
Status
ReleasedRevenue
$11,000,000Budget
$2,000,000Countries
- United States of America
Companies
- Charles Chaplin Productions
