The Tramp and the Dictator
The Great Dictator • 55m
Directed by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft • 2002 • United Kingdom
This 2002 documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft parallels the lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler, from their births the same week to the start of production on THE GREAT DICTATOR a week after Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It includes interviews with author Ray Bradbury, artist Al Hirschfeld, and director Sidney Lumet, among others.
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