The Real Charlie Chaplin

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Certificate12A
Year2021
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Writer(s)Oliver Kindeberg, Peter Middleton, James Spinney
LanguageEnglish
CountryUSA
Running Time1HR 54MINS
SeasonMain Programme
Closed CaptioningThe 3.15pm screening on Wed 23 Feb will be captioned.

The Real Charlie Chaplin centres around a revealing, never-previously-broadcast interview Chaplin gave to Life magazine reporter Richard Meryman in 1966 shedding new light on his tumultuous life and remarkable career.

From the award-winning creative team behind Notes On Blindness and Listen To Me, Marlon comes a contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure. In an innovative blend of newly-unearthed audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and personal archive, the film traces Charlie Chaplin’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom, before his scandalous fall from grace.

Refracting his life through a kaleidoscope of previously unheard voices and perspectives, the film sheds new light on the many sides of a groundbreaking, controversial and visionary artist. For decades he was the most famous man in the world but who was The Real Charlie Chaplin?

This film contains sequences that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.

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