Anglais comparaison de deux films durant la seconde guerre mondiale

We saw two different movies with the class. Let’s make a small summary and compare them.

The first one was “The Great Dictator” also known as “The Dictator” released on the 7 of March 1941 in which Charlie Chaplin was at the same time the actor, the director and the writer in that movie. During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier(Charlie Chaplin) saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz.

Unfortunately, their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memory. The little soldier is sent to a hospital where he remains for the next 20 years, unaware of the changes that are taking place around him.

Dismissed at last from the hospital, the amnesia victim returns to his barber-shop in the Ghetto, expecting to find everything as he left it 20 years before, because he does not realise that he has been away for so long. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, whom he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives.

He finds a friend in Hannah, a beautiful daughter of the Ghetto, and before long their friendship ripens into love.The ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile, Dictator Hynkel(Also payed by Charlie chaplin) develops big plans: he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly, and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps.

Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, who has already deployed his troops along the small country's other border. Pursuing his project of invading Osterlich, Hynkel invites to his palace Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, and after a few comic misunderstandings is able to enlist him as an ally. The invasion is successfully completed and Hannah, who has fled with her friends to Osterlich, again finds herself under the domination of Hynkel’s cruel regime.

Luckily, Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania, who listen eagerly on the radio.

In a nutshell Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

The second one M– A City Searches for a Murderer is a 1931 German drama-thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre.

The film was written by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou, and was the director's first sound film. A mother returning from her little girl after school. The child meets a man who offers him a balloon bought from a blind seller. The girl will not come back. The news of this new murder spreads much faster than the murderer publishes a provocative letter in the newspapers. The crowd is then plagued by collective psychosis and widespread suspicion.

Despite his efforts, the police are trampling and making unsuccessful descendants in the midst of mobsters who claim their total innocence by complaining of the police zeal that harms the transcendence of their business. The underworld then organises with the men to find the murderer himself.

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