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The Great Dictator

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

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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The Great Dictator Videos

THE GREAT DICTATOR Trailer (1940) - The Criterion Collection

THE GREAT DICTATOR Trailer (1940) - The Criterion Collection

Three Reasons: The Great Dictator

Three Reasons: The Great Dictator

Original Trailer

Original Trailer

Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

Info about The Great Dictator

Studio(s): Charles Chaplin Productions

Originally Released: Brazil, Aug 12, 1942

Production Country: United States

Box Office Gross: $11,000,000.00

Budget: $2,000,000.00

Genres:Comedy, Drama, War

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