Charlie Chaplin and the leader: Healing Hynkel!

News about Chaplin's "Great Dictator": A SPIEGEL TV co-produced documentary, which will be premiered at the Berlinale surprised with colored scenes.
uf a special little similarity between Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler in the British magazine "Spectator" in an article on the 50th Birthday in April 1939 (Charlie was four days older than Adolf) was first pointed out: The same narrow mustache adorned his upper lip of slapstick Tramps and the German "Führer".
Scene from "The Great Dictator": "Best Documentary of the Third Reich"
 Together the two was also the origin of oppressive miserable conditions and probably the furious ambition of this misery far as to leave far behind. But while the rise and was a bright 30 years by far the highest paid actor in the world, found itself pushed back the other after the First World War as a failed artist deeper than ever into his misery. Whether he has ever seen the acclaimed burlesque, in which Chaplin himself looked eating the poor grunts with spiked helmets and their emperors, is not known.

Twenty years later, Hitler had brought to at least as great fame as the comedian in his own way, and that was what the author of Double Birthday article in the "Spectator" probably did not know by now almost a little obsessive busy to see leaders newsreels: Chaplin was preparing his film "The Great Dictator" before.
How brilliant he has used his observations, introduces a new, SPIEGEL TV co-produced documentation suggestive in mind that will premiere this Thursday at the Berlinale, and then shown in two parts on TV: "The Tramp and the Dictator" *. Parallel montages in which original Hitler parody (in the movie "Hynkel" called) occur next to each other, making the transformation of barking Leader Rhetoric in Chaplin guttural stammer-tirade to a lesson in top comedy, and in the encounter with Mussolini (and its Film Double Jack Oakie) is acrobatic tightened suddenly that even a newsreel appearance as slapstick number also appears the body contrast.
The other surprising new look at the "Great Dictator" deliver scenes in color, which has rescued from oblivion in Chaplinschen family archives and assembled together with the British Chaplin specialist Kevin Brownlow about this documentation, the film historian Michael Kloft. They pursued partly through historical imagery, mostly through interviews with eyewitnesses and experts, the biographical points of contact between Chaplin and Hitler and shows a final point, healing in the ruins of the Reich Chancellery, the great globe that inspired Chaplin, one of the highlights of his film.
Documented the previously unknown color material, the sample scenes to the "Great Dictator", Sydney Chaplin has turned, the older half-brother, himself and comedian who played as a protector and promoter in Charlie London youth a central role and then in the U.S. as a manager until the end of the twenties, remained at his side.
Beginning of 1939, Sydney, who lived in France now, once again, to visit to Hollywood, was found by Charlie unceremoniously into the production team of "Great Dictator" integrated (where another, younger half brother had to get a assistant job) and remained in the U.S. until Charlie in 1952 as a political refugee returning to Europe.
A suitcase full color home movies from the estate of Sydney Chaplin Charlie's daughter Victoria, who otherwise devoted their lives to their traveling circus, discovered at Lake Geneva in the basement of his parents' residence years ago, where his uncle until his death in 1965, often was visiting taken, and the material to the "Great Dictator" in itself, without recognizing its value.
It is a rarity, not only because it is in color, but because of the dreaded control freak and perfectionist Chaplin, not even tolerated in most cases a photographer during the shooting, the "Great Dictator" urged in a very special secret. The only information about the film, he gave himself to the press in early 1940, attracted even more attention: the premiere, it was should be held in Berlin.
The documentary "The Tramp and the Dictator" shows on the one hand, as the SA in 1931 in Chaplin's visit to Berlin against him made riot and how pompous the other hand, paraded the American Nazis at its convention in 1939 at New York's Madison Square Garden no wonder that Chaplin his project when he announced it, neither Washington nor in Hollywood met with great enthusiasm: they wanted, as long as there was any, Hitler blind eye towards all.
Chaplin financed the film as usual, because he wanted to be purely talking about anyone out of pocket: Almost 170 days of filming he was the enormous cost (for that time) sum of two million dollars.

 The shooting had on 9 September 1939 started a week after the outbreak of war, but only after the conquest of Paris was formed in June 1940, the naively pathetic closing speech, and this surrender of satire against the shock of the reality of the success did not detract from around the world.
If the memory of a witness does not deceive, the "The Tramp and the Dictator" comes to word 1942 is shown in Yugoslavia in a Landserkino a confiscated in Greece "dictator" copy.
The copy in Berlin, Goebbels had known how to obtain course, has been loaned twice to the Reich Chancellery whether the cinema but selfish leader has even seen the film, is not known. Albert Speer later called him "the best documentary about the Third Reich."