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Dominican Rep. The Great Dictator
- Original title
- The Great Dictator
- Year
- 1940
- Running time
- 128 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Charles Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Jack Oakie
Reginald Gardiner
Henry Daniell- Carter De Haven
- Grace Hayle
Maurice Moscovitch
Billy Gilbert- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
Roland Totheroh, Karl Struss (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy | Satire. Nazism. II World War. Propaganda
- Synopsis
- In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so much like Hynkel that he could be his twin. During the First World War, the barber had saved the life of a military pilot named Schultz, who has now become a commanding officer. Schultz pays the barber back by protecting the area in which he lives from anti-Semites. But when Schultz is arrested for being too friendly with Jews, both men are taken to a concentration camp. Later, the two men escape and the barber is mistaken for Hynkel. He takes the opportunity to make a radio speech in the dictator’s place.
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- Awards
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1940: Academy Awrards, includinb best Movie, Actor (Chaplin) and Screenplay1940: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actor (Chaplin)1940: Academy Awards (Oscars): 5 nominations1940: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Films (In alphabetical order).
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