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THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN

By Peter MIDDLETON, James SPINNEY

THE FESTIVAL AGENCY - as SALES festival

Documentary - Post-Production 2020

Groundbreaking, controversial, outspoken and visionary. For decades he was the most famous man in the world – but who was the real Charlie Chaplin? Drawn from a remarkable archive of newly unearthed material, this will be a revealing and poignant portrait of cinema’s most iconic figure.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Director(s)
- Peter MIDDLETON, James SPINNEY
- Writer(s)
- Peter MIDDLETON, James SPINNEY
- Producer(s)
- Ben LIMBERG, John BATTSEK, Mike BRETT
- Synopsis
- 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?