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The Real Charlie Chaplin

Directed by: Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Runtime: 1hr 54min Year: 2021
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Directed by: Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Runtime: 1hr 54min Year: 2021
Country: United States
Topics: Arts & Culture
Last Screened: Tue 3rd Jan 2023

Tracing the star’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom - and a his fall from grace following The Great Dictator.

A contemporary take on a bona fide icon of cinema, The Real Charlie Chaplin is no standard biopic.

Peter Middleton and James Spinney, the co-directors of Notes on Blindness (2016), have created an innovative and compelling account based on revelatory, newly-unearthed audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and a wealth of archive material, bringing us close enough to uncover the real Charles Chaplin.