A globe, a moustache, a barber and spaghetti: these are just some of the iconic images from Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic masterpiece, The Great Dictator. Filmed at the beginning of World War II, this political satire incorporates language and sound effects as fully-fledged comic ingredients. But underneath the laughter lurked a painful prescience that still resonates today…
Ciné-concert part of the «Les Rendez-vous de l’UNESCO» series, organised as part of the Executing peace exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg.
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