Bard SummerScape
Film: The Great Dictator
July 23, 2009
Bard SummerScape
July 23, 2009
Wagner’s music is employed to notable effect in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940), which contains Chaplin’s famous dance with the globe, accompanied by the haunting prelude to Lohengrin.
This film is part of the Politics, Theater, and Wagner Film Festival.