The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)

7.0/10 55 min Documentary TV Movie

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.

Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Narrator (voice)

Walter Bernstein

Self (uncredited)

Ray Bradbury

Self (uncredited)

Sydney Chaplin

Self

Al Hirschfeld

Self (uncredited)

Sidney Lumet

Self (uncredited)

Budd Schulberg

Self (uncredited)

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Oona O'Neill Chaplin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Syd Chaplin

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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