This summer, the Mémorial de la Shoah is offering a special lineup of films screened outdoors on the forecourt of the Mémorial
"Le Dictateur" (The Great Dictator) by Charlie Chaplin Friday, August 21, 2026 Time: 9:30 p.m. 5.00 € United States, fiction, 126 min, Charles Chaplin Productions, 1940. In 1918, a Jewish barber from Tomania saves Colonel Schultz, then loses his memory. After years in the hospital, he returns to his shop in the ghetto, unaware that his lookalike, the dictator Hynkel, is pursuing an antisemitic policy. During a raid, he is arrested with Schultz, but the two escape by disguising themselves as soldiers. Mistaken for Hynkel, the barber is forced to address the crowd and delivers a stirring appeal for unity and humanism. "To Be or Not to Be" by Ernst Lubitsch Saturday, August 22, 2026 Time: 9:30 p.m. United States, fiction, 99 min, United Artists, 1942. Warsaw, 1939. Joseph and Maria Tura’s troupe is rehearsing an anti-Nazi play, Gestapo, and performing Hamlet in the evening under censorship. When war breaks out, Lieutenant Sobinski joins the Royal Air Force in London, then returns to Poland to help the Resistance trap the Nazi spy Siletsky. "Les Producteurs" (The Producers) by Mel Brooks Sunday, August 23, 2026 Time: 9:30 p.m. United States, fiction, 88 min, Springtime, MGM, Crossbow, 1967. Marking the centenary of Mel Brooks’s birth. Max Bialystock, a formerly famous Broadway producer, is on the verge of bankruptcy. With his accountant, Leo Bloom, he comes up with an insurance scam. They stage a deliberately disastrous play, Le Printemps d’Hitler, bringing together the worst possible director and cast. But against all expectations, the premiere, expected to be a disaster, becomes a resounding success, upending their plans.
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Source: paris.fr — photo: Henri Garat / Ville de Paris