The Tramp and the Dictator

Story

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Kevin Brownlow, Michael Kloft

Writers

Kevin Brownlow, Christopher Bird

Language

English

Country

Germany, United Kingdom

Release date

14 February 2002

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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)