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Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator

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Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 20:00
It’s one of the great masterpieces of film history, »perhaps the most significant film ever produced« (New York Times): with »The Great Dictator«, Charlie Chaplin created not only a satire of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism, but also a general manifesto against totalitarianism and war. In the opening week of the Hamburg International Music Festival, which is centred around the theme of »War and Peace«, the film is being screened in the Elbphilharmonie – with the soundtrack performed live by... Read full text
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Symphoniker Hamburg
Timothy BrockConductor

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