HISTORY

Charlie is an immigrant que endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.

Friday, 11 th december 22.30 h.

Original Title:

The Immigrant (A Modern Columbus) (S)aka

United States 1917

25 min.

Director:

Charles Chaplin

Guió:

Vincent Bryan

Charles Chaplin

Maverick Terrell

Music:

Pel·lícula muda

Photography:

Roland Totheroh (B&W)

Repartiment:

Charles Chaplin

Edna Purviance

Eric Campbell

Albert Austin

Henry Bergman

Productora:

Lone Star Corporation Mutual Film

Chaplin's childhood in London was defined by poverty and hardship. Aix hi father was absent and hi mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. When he was 14, his mother was committed to mental asylum. Chaplin beguen performing at early age, touring music halls i later working als stage actor and comedian. At 19 he estat signat pel prestigiós Fred Karno company, que toca him a America. Chaplin està escoltat pel film industrial, i beguen appearing el 1914 per Keystone Studios. He sovel developeu la trampa persona i formeu large fan base. Chaplin dirigeix els seus films de la temporada anterior, i continuen a les seves crafts que he mogut a Essanay, Mutual, i First National corporations. By 1918, he was one of the best known figures in the world.

El 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him completi control over his films. His first feature-length was The Kid (1921), followed by A Woman of Paris (1923), The Gold Rush (1925), and The Circus (1928). He refusat to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936) without dialogue. Chaplin became increasingly political, and his next film, The Great Dictator (1940), satirised Adolf Hitler. El 1940s era decade marcada per controversia per Chaplin, i la seva popularitat declined rapidly. He estat acusat de communitaris sympathies, while his involvement en paternity suit and marriages a molt younger women caused scandal. An FBI investigació és opened, i Chaplin està obligat a llegir els Estats Units i settle in Switzerland. He abandonat el Tramp in his later films, which include Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Limelight (1952), A King in New York (1957), and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967).

Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, i composat la música per most dels seus films. He was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. Els films són characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramp's struggles against adversity. Many contain social i political themes, aix well as autobiographical elements. El 1972, a part de renovació d'appreciation per a la seva feina, Chaplin va rebre una Academy Anonymous Awards per «l'incalculable efecte que has fet en fer les imatges de l'art forma d'aquesta centrada». He continuat to be held in high regard, with The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator often ranked on industry lists of the greatest films of all time.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

• National Film Preservation Board, USA 1998