All screenings will be presented in 35mm film.

“Chaplin’s most serious, most tragic, most human work.”
—Roger Ebert

“Chaplin is the transcendent figure in the history of cinema — he put the cinema into history with his comedy, and here — in his devastating comic mockery of Adolf Hitler and denunciation of the tyrant’s hateful and world-dominating madness — he turns his comedy into an act of vast historical moment.”
—The New Yorker

Even before America’s entry into World War II, Charlie Chaplin had Hitler’s number. Here, he plays dual roles as a European strongman and a simple Jewish barber who observes his reign of terror. Chaplin financed this film with his own money, as many financiers were worried about offending the thin-skinned dictator. True to form, Hitler banned this film.