The Tramp and the Dictator

55m

Documentary TV Movie

7

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

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)

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Oona O'Neill Chaplin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Syd Chaplin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Dies

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)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ivor Montagu

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary Pickford

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Reinhard Spitzy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bernard Vorhaus

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

Michael Kloft

Director

Kevin Brownlow

Director, Writer

Christopher Bird

Writer, Editor

Tom Karsch

Producer

Patrick Stanbury

Producer

Donna Bertaccini

Sound Designer

Thorsten Rejzek

Sound Mixer

Timothy Brock

Original Music Composer