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Charlie Chaplin`s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director`s most touching films. Chaplin plays Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina (Richard III`s Claire Bloom) who lives downstairs. An elegant mix of the comic and the tragic, this poignant film also features Buster Keaton (The General) in an extended cameo, marking the only time the two silent comedy icons appeared together on-screen. Made at a time when Chaplin was under attack by the American press and far right, Limelight was barely distributed in the United States upon its initial release, but it is now considered one of his essential and most personal works.
DVD Special Edition Features:
- New 4K digital restoration
- Chaplin’s Limelight: Its Evolution and Intimacy, a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson
- New interviews with actors Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd
- Chaplin Today: Limelight, a 2002 documentary on the film, featuring director Bernardo Bertolucci and actors Bloom and Sydney Chaplin
- Outtake from the film
- Archival audio recording of Charlie Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights
- Two short films by Chaplin: A Night in the Show (1915) and the never completed The Professor (1919)
- Trailers
- Plus: An essay by critic Peter von Bagh
Als der alternde Music-Hall-Clown Calvero eines Abends nach Hause kommt, riecht er Gas im Treppenhaus. Kurzerhand bricht er die Tür zu einer Wohnung auf und rettet eine bewusstlose Frau. Es ist die junge Tänzerin Terry, die sich das Leben nehmen wollte. Calvero kümmert sich rührend um die junge Frau, und so fasst Terry neuen Lebensmut ...
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