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Synopsis: 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, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Director(s): Charles Chaplin
Production: Criterion Collection
  Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PASSED
Year:
1940
125 min
7,193 Views


but they enslave the people.

Now let us fight

to fulfil that promise!

Let us fight to free the world,

to do away with national barriers,

to do away with greed,

with hate and intolerance.

Let us fight for a world of reason,

a world where science and progress

will lead to the happiness of all.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy,

let us unite!

Hannah,

can you hear me?

Wherever you are, look up, Hannah.

The clouds are lifting,

the sun is breaking through.

We are coming out of the darkness

into a new world,

a kindlier world,

where men will rise

above their hate, their greed

and their brutality.

Look up, Hannah.

The soul of man

has been given wings.

He is flying into the rainbow,

into the light of hope,

into the future,

the glorious future

that belongs to you,

to me and to all of us.

Look up, Hannah. Look up!

Did you hear that?

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