Charles Chaplin - Plädoyer für Menschlichkeit (1940)

aus "Der große Diktator" (The Great Dictator) englisch & deutsch.
Der große Diktator ist ein US-amerikanischer Spielfilm von Charles Chaplin und eine Satire auf Adolf Hitler und den deutschen Nationalsozialismus. Die Uraufführung fand am 15. Oktober 1940 statt.
Sir Charles Chaplin, KBE Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., bekannt als Charlie Chaplin; (* 16. April 1889 in London; † 25. Dezember 1977 in Vevey, Schweiz) war ein britischer Komiker, Schauspieler, Regisseur, Komponist und Produzent.
Chaplin zählt zu den einflussreichsten Komikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine bekannteste Rolle ist der "Vagabund" (im Original "The Tramp", auch "Charlot"), ein verarmter Landstreicher mit den Manieren und der Würde eines Gentleman. Diese Figur mit Zweifingerschnurrbart (auch "Chaplinbart" genannt), übergroßer Hose und Schuhen, enger Jacke, Bambusstock in der Hand und Melone auf dem Kopf wurde zu einer Filmikone. Das American Film Institute wählte Charlie Chaplin auf Platz 10 der größten amerikanischen Filmlegenden aller Zeiten.
Charles Chaplin begann seine Karriere als Kind bei Auftritten in der Music Hall. Als Komiker in den frühen Stummfilmkomödien Hollywoods feierte er bald große Erfolge. Als beliebtester Stummfilmkomiker seiner Zeit erarbeitete er sich künstlerische und finanzielle Unabhängigkeit. 1919 gründete er zusammen mit Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks und David Wark Griffith die Filmgesellschaft United Artists. Des Kommunismus verdächtigt, wurde ihm 1952 nach einem Auslandsaufenthalt die Rückkehr in die USA verweigert. Er setzte in Europa seine Arbeit als Schauspieler und Regisseur fort. 1972 nahm er einen Ehrenoscar für sein Lebenswerk entgegen. Fünf Jahre später starb er mit 88 Jahren in seinem Schweizer Wohnort.
The Great Dictator is a comedy film released in October 1940. It was written, directed, produced by, and starred Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this was Chaplin's first true talking picture as well as his most commercially successful film. More importantly, it was the first major feature film of its period to bitterly satirize Nazism and Adolf Hitler.
At the time of its first release, the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, the latter of whom he excoriates in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts".
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 -- 25 December 1977), known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He became one of the most famous film stars in the world before the end of the First World War. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the Music Hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin's identification with the left ultimately forced him to resettle in Europe during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time. In 2008, Martin Sieff, in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, wrote: "Chaplin was not just 'big', he was gigantic. In 1915, he burst onto a war-torn world bringing it the gift of comedy, laughter and relief while it was tearing itself apart through World War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Adolf Hitler, he stayed on the job. ... It is doubtful any individual has ever given more entertainment, pleasure and relief to so many human beings when they needed it the most". George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin "the only genius to come out of the movie industry".

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