Modern Times
Doha Film Experience - Doha Film Institute
Charlie Chaplin / United States of America / 1936 / 87 min / Black & White / Bluray / In English / (No Subtitles), Arabic subtitles
Themes : Comedy, Romance, Social Issues
Rated: 
Parental guidance is advised. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
Description
With his bowler hat, cane and little moustache, Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp is one of the most beloved characters in cinema. In ‘Modern Times’, the Tramp’s mind-numbing assembly-line job drives him to a nervous breakdown, which plunges the factory into hilarious chaos as Chaplin performs his flawlessly timed slapstick antics. After the Tramp recovers, he tries to fit into society with his new love, a young homeless woman. A master of subversive comedy, Chaplin tackled social issues by making audiences roar with laughter.
Director
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin was born in London in 1889 and over the course of his career would become one of the most celebrated and admired filmmakers in the history of cinema. His early comical onscreen success at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Films led to international acclaim; he went on to launch United Artists with his contemporaries Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. Among his iconic films – all of which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, are ‘The Kid’ (1921), ‘City Lights’ (1931), ‘Modern Times’ (1936) and ‘The Great Dictator’ (1940). Chaplin died in 1977.
Credits
- Screenwriter
- Charlie Chaplin
- Producer
- Charlie Chaplin
- Cinematographer
- Ira H. Morgan, Roland Totheroh
- Editor
- Williard Nico
- Cast
- Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford, Chester Conklin