The Great Dictator

This film, in which the ruler of Tomania, dictator Adenoid Hynkel, is mistaken for his doppelgänger – a Jewish barber who has escaped from a concentration camp -, is one of the most successful biting and satirical verdicts on fascism ever made. Like no other film of the time, it succeeded in pointing out the dangers of the Führer’s obsession to rule the world and his racist madness. At the end of the film, Chaplin juxtaposes images of barbarity with an impassioned humanist speech on the part of the little Jewish barber.