The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin’s most influential work, is a deeply humanistic piece of cinematic art. The ruthless sarcasm and ingenious clowning, which Chaplin uses as he plays both the little barber and the great dictator, relieved millions of their anxieties. His unforgettable accessories, the moustache, the shoes, and the bowler hat along with his gestures have all imprinted themselves
onto our minds. The story takes place just before WW2, in a time when poverty and madness reached an unprecedented level. The faith in humanity and freedom had failed. It was on the advice of Hungarian born film director and producer Sándor Korda, that Chaplin started working on The Great Dictator. The film follows the
development of Hitler’s Reich and the hardships the Jews had to endure, up until the occupation of Austria. Later in his life, Chaplin said: „Had I known the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator; I could not have
made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.” Enikő Eszenyi is the first theatre director in Hungary to receive the license of
the Chaplin family to stage The Great Dictator.
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Hynkel / the Barber: Attila Vidnyánszky Jr.
Commander Schultz: József Wunderlich
Herr Speis: Károly Hajduk
Herr Hering: Béla Gados
Hannah: Csenge Szilágyi
Correspondent: Márk Ember
Mr. Grűber: Sándor Lukács
Mrs. Grűber: Éva Igó
Napaloni: Dániel Király
Mrs. Napaloni / Mrs. Schumacher: Zsuzsa Hullan
Man with hat / Waiter / Slender waiter / Trumpetist: Áron Zoltán
Spook / Wagner / Commander / Kibitzen: Zoltán Gyöngyösi
Female secret agent: Andrea Waskovics
Hilda: Enikő Dobó
Grocer: Attila Viszt
Captain K. / Tall guard: Zsombor Ertl
English soldier / Patrol: Péter Reider
Anna: Szonja Rudolf
Nurse: Luca Márkus
Nurser-maiden: Dorottya Antóci
Also appearing: Gábor Ánosi, Barna Bálint, Szandra Bársony,
Adél Forrás, Ádám Kolozsvári, Balázs Kóbor, Ádám Kurucz,
Brigitta Tóth, Máté Tóth, Zsófia Safranka-Peti, Péter Viola,
Orsolya Vitárius
Musicians: Ádám Hlaszny, Kristóf Hosszú, Péter Gellért-Robinik,
Roberta Izabella Kiss-Varga, Levente Kurucz, Dávid Mester,
Gábor Rónai, Péter Tóth, Mátyás Standovár
Directed by
ENIKŐ ESZENYI
Dramaturgy: Róbert Vörös
Choreography: László Bóbis
Set designer: Csaba Antal
Costume design: Judit Pusztai
Music: Adrián Kovács
Head of music: Dávid Mester
Scenist: Zoltán Juhász
Lighting: Balázs Csontos
Director’s assistants:
Dániel Cseplye, Zoé Efstratiadu, Gergő Patkós
Stage manager: László Balázs, Róbert Schmidt, Erik Wiesmeyer
Prompter: Csilla Mészáros
Costume manufacturer: Katalin Horváth
Fighting scenes: László Balázs
Stage movement: Edit Rujsz
Acrobatics coach: Tibor Kőműves , Tünde Vincze
Pyrotechnics: Ferenc Török
Flying technique: Gábor Mihály