Obra maestra del cine e ingeniosa parodia del fascismo, donde Hitler fue el blanco de sus críticas. Título con sonido rodado en plena guerra, y donde aprovecha el innegable parecido de Charlot con el dictador. Desternillante y aterrador a la vez resulta ver a Hinkel jugando con el globo terráqueo, donde hay toneladas de ironía al intentar mostrar a un dictador manejando el mundo a su antojo. Nominada a los Oscar para película, actor (Charles Chaplin), actor secundario (Jack Oakie), música y guión. Emotivo resulta el discurso final, que es todo un grito en pro de la paz mundial y la unión de todos los hombres.
Twenty 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 since been hospitalized the result of 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, who 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 want for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich...
1940: 5 nominaciones al Oscar: Película, actor (Chaplin), actor sec. (Oakie), bso, guión

Director: Charles Chaplin
Intérpretes: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle
Guión: Charles Chaplin
Música: Meredith Willson
Fotografía: Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh
Título Original: The Great Dictator
Año: 1940
País: EE.UU.
Duración: 113 min.
Género: Comedia, Drama

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