Newsmeldung von slashCAM:The Great Dictator 20:45 Sunday 14.October 2007 / Arte The grotesque, sometimes brilliant satire on Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime is Charles Chaplin's most successful film and then the heated debate over the War of Americans. Unforgotten Hynkels dance remains with the sudden burst globe. Chaplin later wrote that he had rotated the film never would have if it were the truth about the German concentration camps had known.
The figures of Adenoid Hynkel and the pacifist Jewish barber plays Chaplin himself and uses for the first time the possibilities of sound film. The speeches of the dictator, he holds in a fantasy language. Their tone of voice sounds choppy and emulate the German after, and give an impression of how the language sounds to someone who does not understand them. Moreover, as the aggressive content of the shows said.
Charles Chaplin was in 1941 in the categories "Best leading role", "Best Film", "best script" and "Best Music" (shared with Meredith Willson) nominated for an Oscar, just like Jack Oakie as Best Supporting Actor. (The Great Dictator, USA 1940)
Following s.den movie follows the documentary "The Tramp and the Dictator" by Kevin Brownlow and Michel Kloft. You go, inter alia, the question once more to see if you can laugh about Hitler, whose show displays in other Hollywood shooting, highlight the history of reception and the lasting impact of Chaplin's film.
/ JPR
Antwort von Quadruplex:
Really a great film - but at least half an hour too long ... Still watching!
Antwort von camworks:
Yes, definitely a highlight.
