Long Night of Museums: The Great Dictator

Białystok Cultural Centre – “GAG” Film Discussion Club has the pleasure of inviting you to a film screening within the Long Night of Museums:

Cinema Classics: The Great Dictator

May 18th, 2019, 10 PM
Forum Cinema, 5 Legionowa Street
free entry

In his notorious masterpiece, The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin (City Lights, Modern Times) offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin (in his first pure talkie) brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomanian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie (Thieves’ Highway, Lover Come Back) and Paulette Goddard (Modern Times, The Women) in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned plea for tolerance.

The European Night of Museums at the BCC – complete schedule