this film enter production before ww2 begin and but be not release until it be well under way . with significant fascist sympathy in the u and and chaplin himself be suspect a a communist sympathiser and the great dictator be a very courageous endeavour . such risk in film make thinly veil political statement would be almost inconceivable today . imagine the fallout if someone be to make an equally satirical film today which criticise the usa foreign policy . this film be hilarious and poignant and tragic . the tragedy be that chaplin make a plea for the madness to end and but it be already to late for him and for u . a must see if you have any interest whatsoever in history and film making and politics or sattire a an art form .