Il grande dittatore
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In Tomania il dittatore Adenoid Hynkel scatena la repressione contro gli ebrei. La bella Hannah e il suo innamorato, un barbiere straordinariamente somigliante a Hynkel, fuggono. Il barbiere, dapprima catturato, scappa dal lager e si imbatte per caso nel vero dittatore che viene arrestato in vece sua. Dai microfoni del führer il barbiere pronuncia al mondo un lungo messaggio di pace e speranza. Primo film interamente parlato di Chaplin, è una geniale satira antinazista realizzata quando le armate del Terzo Reich avevano ormai soggiogato l'intera Europa. Tra le sequenze da antologia, la danza di Hynkel con il mappamondo e i duetti con Napoloni/ Mussolini.
Qualsiasi somiglianza tra il dittatore Hynkel e il barbiere ebreo è puramente casuale.
(1940) Commedia , Guerra
Data rilascio : 15/10/1940
regia di Charlie Chaplin
Budget : 2.000.000,00 $
Incasso : 11.000.000,00 $
Cast
Charlie Chaplin - Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
Paulette Goddard - Hannah
Jack Oakie - Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria
Reginald Gardiner - Commander Schultz
Henry Daniell - Garbitsch
Billy Gilbert - Field Marshal Herring
Grace Hayle - Madame Napaloni
Carter DeHaven - Spook
Maurice Moscovitch - Mr. Jaeckel
Emma Dunn - Mrs. Jaeckel
Bernard Gorcey - Mr. Mann
Paul Weigel - Mr. Agar
Chester Conklin - Barber's Customer
Esther Michelson - Jewish Woman
Hank Mann - Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit
Florence Wright - Blonde Secretary
Eddie Gribbon - Tomanian Storm Trooper
Rudolph Anders - Tomanian Commandant at Osterlich / Robert O. Davis
Eddie Dunn - Whitewashed Storm Trooper
Nita Pike - Secretary
George Lynn - Commander of Storm Troopers
Wheeler Dryden - Heinrich Schtick / Translator (voice)
Fred Aldrich - Soldier (uncredited)
Richard Alexander - Tomainian Prison Guard in 1918 (uncredited)
Sig Arno - Compact Parachute Inventor (uncredited)
William Arnold - Tomanian Officer (uncredited)
Joe Bordeaux - Ghetto Extra (uncredited)
Don Brodie - Reporter from International Press (uncredited)
Gino Corrado - Sculptor (uncredited)
John Davidson - Hospital Superintendent (uncredited)
Max Davidson - Jewish Man (uncredited)
Lew Davis - Hospital Orderly (uncredited)
Pat Flaherty - Friendly Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Bud Geary - Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Sam Harris - Officer (uncredited)
Eddie Hart - Policeman (uncredited)
Leyland Hodgson - Big Bertha Gunnery Officer (uncredited)
William Irving - Man Seated on Bed (uncredited)
Charles Irwin - Banquet Butler (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold - Blonde Secretary (uncredited)
Torben Meyer - Bald Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse - Hynkel's Staff Officer (uncredited)
Nellie V. Nichols - Jewish Woman (uncredited)
Manuel París - Dance Extra at Ball (uncredited)
Jack Perrin - Jewish Man (uncredited)
Lucien Prival - Storm Trooper Officer (uncredited)
Cyril Ring - Officer Extra (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore - Soldier (uncredited)
Tiny Sandford - Soldier in 1918 Tomainia (uncredited)
Hans Schumm - Soldier (uncredited)
Harry Semels - Jewish Fruit Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan - Prison Guard (uncredited)
Carl Voss - Officer (uncredited)
Leo White - Hynkel's Barber (uncredited)
Harry Wilson - Soldier in Field (uncredited)
Hans Conried - Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Francis Ernest Drake - Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Francesca Santoro - Aggie (uncredited)
Leonard Walker - Conductor (uncredited)
Finn Zirzow - Soldier (uncredited)
Wyn Ritchie Evans - Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
James Carlisle - Ball Guest (uncredited)
Oliver Cross - Ball Guest (uncredited)