THE GREAT DICTATOR

At the end of during the first world war Tomania Army soldier, to save the life of Officer Schultz on his plane suffers an accident and loses his memory and remain in hospital for 20 years. When, still amnesiac, escapes from hospital, returns home, where reopens his old barber shop located in the Ghetto. Times have changed. The country is ruled by the dictator Hynkel Astolfo, and there is a brutal discrimination against Jews.
One of the Ghetto young, beautiful Hannah, defends the barber when harassed by members of the security forces Hynkel. They fall in love and must suffer the abuses of the dictatorship, though they have the breath to have the protection of Schultz, who admitted the barber, and a short period of peace with the Jews while Hynkel trying to get financing for your Jewish banker ambitions of global domination.

 Hynkel "plays" with a balloon loan terráqueoEl rejection by the Jewish banker encourages the resumption of oppression in the Ghetto, Schultz face him down in disgrace by his lack of humanity to the dictator and to hide the Jews. The prosecution produced the barber and Schultz are sent to a concentration camp.
Hynkel Osterlich decides to invade, but the intrusion of the leader of Bacteria, Benzino Napaloni, forces you to invite and be diplomatic, which flows into a ridiculous war of food and cake between the two dictators.
Hannah and people flee to Osterlich Ghetto, but soon began the invasion from Tomania. Then, to escape the barber, and Schultz, Hynkel be picked up by mistake by his own troops, for their strong resemblance to the barber, and this will be taken by Hynkel and taken to give a speech on the opening of world conquest.

 Final speech scene Instead, the barber gives a speech exhorting humanity to leave the mechanization of man, dictatorships, discrimination, and recovery of humanity: "I am very sorry but I do not want to be dictator. I do not want to rule or conquer anyone. I want to help all, Jew, Gentile, black or white ... Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and made us ill. We think and feel too little. More than machinery we need kindness and gentleness ... Soldiers in the name of democracy, unite! ".
Applauded by the crowd, speaking to himself: "Can you hear me Hannah? Wherever you are, facing upwards, Hannah! ".
Hannah, at home, destroyed by the invaders back, looks at the sky with hope, and that face the screen is closed.