The Great Dictator

YEAR:: 1940
RUN TIME:: 124 min.
FORMAT:: B&W
RATING:: Not Rated

“A truly great achievement by a truly great artist.”

-Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

The U.S. was not yet in World War II when Chaplin leveled his comedy arsenal at Der Führer by playing the dual roles of Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer for der Nutsie. Puns, sight gags and slapstick abound as Chaplin skewers fascism, balancing his attack with poignant scenes of a ghetto in the clutches of storm-trooping terror.

-synopsis courtesy Film Forum repertory calendar