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 ground-breaking, controversial and visionary artist.
For decades he was the most famous man in the world but who was The Real Charlie Chaplin?
“A timely portrait of a genius who could also be a monster” Charlotte O’Sullivan, Evening Standard.
Director: Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Country: UK
Year of production: 2021
Cert: 12
Watch The Real Charlie Chaplin trailer.