The Real Charlie Chaplin

In an innovative blend of newly-unearthed audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and personal archive, trace 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? From the award-winning creative team behind Notes On Blindness and Listen To Me comes an ingenious and contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure.

Please note: this film contains sequences that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.