The Tramp and the Dictator
Overview
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
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Kenneth Branagh
Narrator (voice)
Walter Bernstein
Self (uncredited)
Ray Bradbury
Self (uncredited)
Sydney Chaplin
Self
Brigitte Hamann
Self (uncredited)
Al Hirschfeld
Self (uncredited)
Stanley Kauffmann
Self (uncredited)
Sidney Lumet
Self (uncredited)
Nikola Radosevic
Self (uncredited)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Self (uncredited)
Budd Schulberg
Self (uncredited)
Gitta Sereny
Self (uncredited)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Oona O'Neill Chaplin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Syd Chaplin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Dies
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
D.W. Griffith
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Ford
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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