Mercilessly persecuting Jews and dissenters, dictator Anton Hynkel rules Tomania. Meanwhile, a Jewish barber who looks just like Hynkel and suffers from amnesia following a plane crash courageously resists the tyrant’s henchmen. When he is erroneously mistaken for his doppelganger, the barber is forced to take on the role of the dictator… Charlie Chaplin’s prescient satirical take on fascism and the Nazis, created in 1940, is a disconcertingly topical classic. The false dictator’s barn-storming speech at the end is considered one of film history’s greatest scenes.