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The story follows the mishaps of a Jewish barber with a striking resemblance to the dictator, Adenoid Hynkel, of fictional Tomainia as the country is on the brink of war.
Chaplin’s The Great Dictator transformed Hitler into Adenoid Hynkel, the screaming tyrant of fictional Tomainia. Cohen condensed Middle East dictators into Admiral General Aladeen, ruler of the ...
Nearly 65 years after it began production, shock remains a primary reaction to the discovery of writer, director and star Charles Chaplin's 1940 film, The Great Dictator. Beginning principal ...
It's hardly surprising that Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was banned in Germany, and in every country occupied by Germany, in 1940. A film that mocked Adolf Hitler was never going to be the ...