12th Feb 2026
Continuity mistake: Two mistakes here: when the storm troopers raid the building, the barber's hat falls about a metre away from the table. He is then shoved onto the table, and when the soldiers are about to leave, his bowler hat is back on his head: he is holding it with his right hand while holding a flower pot in his left. A shot later, the bowler hat and the flower pot have switched hands.
12th Feb 2026
Continuity mistake: When Hannah and the barber are in the street and hear Hynkel's speech, her hands shift from being tucked under his arm—gripping the point where the elbow meets the arm—to resting on top of his wrist.
11th Feb 2026
Continuity mistake: When the movie begins, the gunner's and the tank commander's positions change on every single shot.
11th Feb 2010
Continuity mistake: Chaplin stands up to deliver the final speech, takes off his cap and we see his hair is short and flat. When the angle changes to a close-up the hair is longer and fluffy.
17th Jun 2005
Continuity mistake: Chaplin spits 3 coins from the pudding. One falls and moves to the middle of the table. Another gets beneath a dish. And a third one falls off the table. A couple seconds later all three appear lined up on the table, close to Chaplin, ready for him to pick them up.
17th Jun 2005
Continuity mistake: At the end of the pudding scene, when Hannah shows up, the sugar bowl left of Chaplin moves from close to a glass to the far right of the table.
17th Jun 2005
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Jaeckel says he's found the coin in the pudding his white handkerchief disappears.
17th Jun 2005
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Napoloni gets trapped by the guards, notice the people around her from left to right: ambassador, thin man with loose hair, elegant man, man with beret. Closeup shot and the thin man has disappeared and a man with a white rounded hat appears out of nowhere, close to the elegant man.
17th Jun 2005
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Napoloni gets trapped by the guards, the suit of the handsome man behind her, with a hat and a coat hanging on his left arm, swaps from light coloured to black.
18th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: Hynkel and Napoloni salute the masses and Napoloni's hand changes from resting on his belt to his hip between shots.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: When Hannah and her family enter Osterlich, her right hand swaps from being close to the white blanket to slightly away from it between shots.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: When Hynkel and Napoloni walk towards the press to have their pictures taken, Napoloni's cape switches between covering his chest to covering just his shoulders.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: When Hynkel is removing Garbitsch's medals, a medal with a cross, close to the left armpit, disappears without Hynkel having touched it.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: When Chaplin is about to deliver his final speech, he walks towards a stone wall with the word "Liberty" engraved on it. The word ends where the staircase begins, and close to it is a staircase with a bare stone wall behind. But when Chaplin ascends the steps the engraving has moved to the very center of the staircase.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: The barber and Hannah's walk gets interrupted by Hynkel's speech. The barber runs to hide and his hat falls on the street face up. Angle changes to Hannah and when back to the barber the hat is now facing down.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: The first time the barber enters his shop he leaves his hat and cane in a coat rack. He exits and when he comes back they've disappeared.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: Inside the train, Napoloni says "I never get out without a red carpet", and then he faces left. A split second later he is facing the opposite side.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: When Chaplin is about to deliver his final speech, there's a bunch of people on the right side, just where the staircase is. When Chaplin is ascending the steps the people disappear.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: During dinner with Napoloni Hynkel asks fro strawberries. The spoon inside the English mustard moves to the right between one shot and the other.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: When the train station sequence begins the Bacterian ambassador extends his arm to salute twice.