The Great Dictator
1940 124 min

The Great Dictator

Director Charles Chaplin
Cast Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner

In this masterful and daring satirical epic, Charles Chaplin delivers a dual performance that forever changed cinema. A poor Jewish barber struggles to survive within the walls of a ghetto, while the tyrannical dictator Adenoid Hynkel schemes to expand his empire. With a razor-sharp gaze on the political absurdities of the 1940s, the film masterfully balances hilarious slapstick comedy with a profound, humanistic plea for peace and dignity.

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Currently playing in the Netherlands in: Rotterdam. View all showtimes at cinemas like Cinerama.