Sunday, 16 June 2013

Charlie Chaplin and the leader: Healing Hynkel!

News about Chaplin's "Great Dictator": A SPIEGEL TV co-produced documentary, which will be premiered at the Berlinale surprised with colored scenes.
uf a special little similarity between Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler in the British magazine "Spectator" in an article on the 50th Birthday in April 1939 (Charlie was four days older than Adolf) was first pointed out: The same narrow mustache adorned his upper lip of slapstick Tramps and the German "Führer".
Scene from "The Great Dictator": "Best Documentary of the Third Reich"
 Together the two was also the origin of oppressive miserable conditions and probably the furious ambition of this misery far as to leave far behind. But while the rise and was a bright 30 years by far the highest paid actor in the world, found itself pushed back the other after the First World War as a failed artist deeper than ever into his misery. Whether he has ever seen the acclaimed burlesque, in which Chaplin himself looked eating the poor grunts with spiked helmets and their emperors, is not known.

Silent film festival in Babylon Charlie Chaplin returns to Berlin

Charlie Chaplin visited Berlin some 80 years ago. Now his works are shown at Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz. The Silent Film Festival takes place from 15 July to 7 August. For the first time the complete works of the artist is shown in Germany. The films will be accompanied by music from the New Chamber Orchestra of Potsdam. Photo: promoCharlie Chaplin visited Berlin some 80 years ago. Now his works are shown at Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz. The Silent Film Festival takes place from 15 July to 7 August ... - Photo: promo
The first highlight of the festival is on the 15th Held in July on the Pariser Platz. The film is "The Great Dictator" for nothing and demonstrated outside. It was the film that Chaplin bring most associated with Germany and Berlin, festival director Timothy Grossman said on Tuesday at the launch of the program.

Charlie Chaplin museum

 Melon, floor and mini-moves - everyone knows Charlie Chaplin figure "Tramp". This icon of film history dedicated the German Film Museum exhibition.Part of the collective film memory: Charlie Chaplin as "tramp" with Jackie Coogan, 1921.
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Although the films are almost a hundred years old, belongs to Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977) invented character of the "tramp" to today's collective memory of mankind. The German Film Museum in Frankfurt, dedicated to this icon of film history now an exhibition. "Charlie, The bestseller" not aware of any exhibition on the life and work of the great comedian, director Claudia Dillmann said on Monday.