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The Real Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin. Copyright: Altitude Film Entertainment
The Real Charlie Chaplin

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.

  • Repeated Wednesday 4th December at 11:40pm on Film4

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The Real Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin. Copyright: Altitude Film Entertainment

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

Altitude Film Entertainment

Also known as
  • Chasing Chaplin (Working title)
Picture
Colour

Website links

Broadcast details

Next repeats
  1. Wednesday 4th December at 11:40pm on Film4
All previous repeats
  • Tuesday 3rd October 2023 at 10:50pm on Film4

Recording details

  • Pinewood Studios, Hornsey Town Hall and Dagenham Civic Centre

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