Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Awards: Nominated for best Actor in leading and in the supporting roles along with best musical score, picture and story. There was one other nomination in other awards with four wins.
Interesting Fact: Chaplin was haunted by his similarities with Hitler's looks and childhood background. He said concerning the matter, "He’s the madman, I’m the comic. But it could have been the other way around."
Who else could make a movie about the rise of Hitler and have everyone laughing at the end? Who could have you laughing one moment and tingling the next with patriotism?.. only Chaplin. This movie goes on my top ten for two reasons: one for the nature of the topic and the other for the guts of Chaplin to stand up to one of the cruelest rulers in our time.
Here is a comedic satire on the rise of Adolf Hitler with a simple twist of a lowly barber living in the ghetto, sharing the same physical features. As the barber learns to adapt to this new life, 'Hynkel' is commanding legions to oppress and attack. By chance, their identities are mistaken and the once barber now finds himself ready for a speech to his new army. What would be said by one of the subjects if the emperor was thought to be him? How different would the world have been if such a miracle occurred?
*The classic scene at the barber showing off Chaplin's talent with music
*The final speech made by the mistaken dictator
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