The great dictator


Chaplin's film advanced a stirring condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis. At the time of its first release, the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Chaplin plays both leading roles: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber.

The Great Dictator was popular with audiences, becoming Chaplin's most commercially successful film.[4] Modern critics have also praised it as a historically significant film and an important work of satire, and in 1997, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[5] The Great Dictator was nominated for five Academy Awards – Outstanding Production, Best Actor, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Best Supporting Actor for Jack Oakie, and Best Music (Original Score).

In his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he would not have made the film if he had known about the true extent of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at the time.


In this movie the satire on politically by Chaplin,  he plays the double role, that one is Hynkel and second is as a Barber. At the time of WW1 it was began the story. One think of Hynkel is good that he was a great speaker. And other side Barber live Happilly. Now we see the two sides one is politically and second is middle-class people and their problems. One area that live all the other religios people and against jew. That one scene we find that Barber stop the painter to wrote the jew word. And than policeman are fight with barber for this things. If we see this scene as a silly things in that time, we can find today's time with heally influenced religion matters. All the people are divided by religion. If we take other works of Chaplin that are connected with today's time in deeper way. 

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