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The Great Dictator
Comedy, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value politically courageous comedy that uses physical performance, caricature, and a rousing moral appeal to confront authoritarianism.
- Tone
- satirical, darkly comic, uplifting
- Payoff
- amusement, inspiration
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- fascism, tyranny, persecution, mistaken identity, moral courage
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century wartime, authoritarian capital and persecuted neighborhood
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