

Sat, Feb 01
|Portland
The Great Dictator Screening
The Great Dictator - starring Charlie Chaplin as a Jewish barber who looks like his country's anti-Semitic dictator. The film was banned in Nazi-occupied countries, but was shown to a German audience once.
Time & Location
Feb 01, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Portland, 2110 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97214, USA
About the event
Adolf Hitler banned the film in Germany and all Nazi-occupied countries. Curiosity got the best of him, and he had a print brought in through Portugal. History records that he screened it twice, in private, but not his reaction. He was said to have laughed only once which was during the 'barber chair scene' between Hynkel and Napaloni. Charles Chaplin said, "I'd give anything to know what he thought of it." West Germany finally lifted the ban in 1958.