Friday, April 17, 2009

The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)

Documentary on Charlie Chaplin’s famed anti-Nazi satire The Great Dictator (1940). Film discusses, among other things, similarities between Chaplin and Hitler’s upbringing (they were both born in the same week in 1889, were poor, had Jewish relatives), and Hitler’s reaction to the film (unsurprisingly negative, though apparently he saw it twice). Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Fair to Good.

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