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Jan 23, 2017akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a 1940 American political comedy written, directed, produced and scored by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin plays both a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber. Chaplin and French film-maker René Clair viewed Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" together at a showing at the New York Museum of Modern Art. While Clair was horrified by the power of the film, crying out that this should never be shown or the West was lost, Chaplin laughed uproariously at the film. He used it to inspire many elements of "The Great Dictator." Repeatedly viewing "Triumph of the Will", Chaplin could closely mimic Hitler's mannerisms, and made Hynkel's rally speech near the beginning of this film, delivering German-sounding gibberish in a caricature of Hitler's oratory style. You could laugh your head off, if not to death.