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The great dictator [digital videodisc] / Charles Chaplin Film Corporation ; written & directed by Charles Chaplin.

[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2011]

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Drama.

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Drama.

Dictators -- Drama.

Fascism -- Drama.

National socialism -- Drama.

Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Drama.

Antisemitism -- Germany -- Drama.

Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Drama.

Criterion collection 565.

2 videodiscs (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)

Special features: Disc 1. Optional audio feature commentary with author Dan Kamin and historian Hooman Mehran ; Disc 2. The tramp and the dictator (Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft's documentary paralleling the lives of Chaplin and Hitler) -- Chaplin's Napoleon (visual essay by Cecilia Cenciarelli) -- The clown turns prophet (visual essay by Jeffrey Vance) -- Sydney Chaplin's footage (making-of featurette by Sydney Chaplin) -- King, Queen, Joker (short film directed and played by Sydney Chaplin) -- Charlie the barber (deleted scene) ; Booklet: Essay, The joker and the madman, by Michael Wood -- Essay, Mr. Chaplin answers his critics, by Charles Chaplin -- Essay, What is known as really speaking, by Jean Narboni.

In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.

Named to the National Film Registry in 1997 by the Library of Congress ; Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Charles Chaplin), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Oakie), Best Music, Original Score (Meredith Willson), Best Picture, Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Charles Chaplin), 1940 Academy Awards (U.S.A.).

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