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The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator 18+Synopsis
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Country
USA
Runtime
2 hours 8 minutes
Production year
1940
Online premiere
1 June 2020
World premiere
15 October 1940
Release date
| 21 November 2019 | Russia | 0+ | |
| 31 May 1945 | Argentina | ||
| 7 February 1941 | Australia | ||
| 30 March 1973 | Belgium | ||
| 23 September 2005 | Brazil | ||
| 24 January 2003 | Canada | ||
| 1 January 1941 | Chile | ||
| 16 January 2003 | Czechia | ||
| 10 October 1947 | Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1 December 1947 | Denmark | ||
| 21 December 1973 | Finland | ||
| 10 July 2019 | France | ||
| 10 April 1997 | Germany | ||
| 22 August 2003 | Great Britain | ||
| 24 May 2012 | Greece | ||
| 27 March 1947 | Hong Kong | ||
| 14 March 1974 | Hungary | ||
| 4 March 1941 | Indonesia | ||
| 22 August 2003 | Ireland | ||
| 26 September 2002 | Israel | ||
| 3 February 1961 | Italy | ||
| 13 October 1973 | Japan | ||
| 1 January 1941 | Mexico | ||
| 14 October 2021 | Netherlands | ||
| 22 November 2002 | Norway | ||
| 24 May 1941 | Palestine | ||
| 20 October 1945 | Philippines | ||
| 15 February 2008 | Poland | ||
| 8 May 1974 | Portugal | ||
| 23 October 1945 | Singapore | ||
| 19 November 1988 | South Korea | ||
| 22 November 2002 | Spain | ||
| 25 December 2002 | Sweden | ||
| 15 October 1940 | Turkey | ||
| 7 March 1941 | USA | ||
| 16 January 1941 | Uruguay |
MPAA
G
Budget
$2,000,000
Worldwide Gross
$972,212
Production
Charles Chaplin Productions
Also known as
The Great Dictator, El gran dictador, Diktátor, Le dictateur, Великий диктатор, Diktatoren, O Grande Ditador, Veliki diktator, Велики диктатор, A diktátor, Böyük diktator, Buyuk diktator, De dictator, De diktator, Den store diktator, Der große Diktator, Dictator-e bozorg, Dictatorul, Didysis diktatorius, Diktaattori, Diktatorn, Dokusaisha, Dyktator, Ha-Dictator Ha-Gadol, Il dittatore, Il grande dittatore, Nhà Độc Tài Vĩ Đại, O Ditador, O megalos diktator, Şarlo Diktatör, Suur diktaator, The Dictator, Ο μεγάλος δικτάτωρ, Великият диктатор, Ұлы диктатор, チャップリンの独裁者, 大独裁者, 大獨裁者
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[last lines]
A Jewish Barber
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill 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 all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all 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 the light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. 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!
Mr. Jaeckel
Hannah, did you hear that?
Hannah
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