The Great Dictator (1940)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin · Cinematography by Karl Struss, Roland Totheroh

G125 min65 frames

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Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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