The Real Charlie Chaplin
- 2022 documentary
Documentary feature exploring the life of early cinema icon and clown, Charlie Chaplin. Also features Jeff Rawle, Paul Ryan, Matthew Wolf, Dickie Beau, Anne Rosenfeld and more.
Streaming rank this week: 8,010
Key details
- Genre
- Documentary
- Released
- 2022
- Features
- Jeff Rawle, Paul Ryan, Matthew Wolf, Dickie Beau, Anne Rosenfeld, Dominic Marsh, Paul Leonard, Eben Young and more
- Writers
- Oliver Kindeberg, Peter Middleton and James Spinney
- Directors
- Peter Middleton and James Spinney
- Producers
- Ben Limberg, John Battsek, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Jo-Jo Ellison, Vinnie Malhotra, Sam Lavender, Ben Coren and more
- Companies
From an award-winning creative team 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?
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Additional details
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 112 minutes
- UK release
- Friday 18th February 2022
- Distributors
- Also known as
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- Chasing Chaplin (Working title)
- Picture
- Colour
Website links
Broadcast details
- All previous repeats
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- Wednesday 4th December 2024 at 11:40pm on Film4
- Tuesday 3rd October 2023 at 10:50pm on Film4
Recording details
- Pinewood Studios, Hornsey Town Hall and Dagenham Civic Centre