Movie made by
Charlie Chaplin in 1940. A jab at
Hitler,
Mussolini, and
fascism in general. Chaplin plays both the Hitler character and a
Jewish barber in the
ghetto. An interesting movie, as it is one of the few that deal with Hitler's
oppression before the discovery (to the entire world) of the true horrors of the
final solution; the
concentration camp looks just like a normal
prison, for instance, and the movie ends up on a note that appears sadly
innocent to us viewers who know what eventually happened in the 1940s.
Although it wasn't very popular when it came out, The Great Dictator is seen today as one of Chaplin's greatest works.