Almost everything has been said already of the legend Charlie Chaplin. How did a street child, born in one of the most underprivileged districts of London, become the most famous man in the world in the space of a few years? How did cinema, just verging on adulthood, free itself from Music Hall and Vaudeville to burst into modernity, evolving from fairground attraction to a fortune generating industry? Our film relives the success of Chaplin, going beyond the era and fashions, and examines the birth of an icon. We explore the mystery of this almost instant success, and the universality of a silhouette that has lasted for over a century.

Almost everything has been said already of the legend Charlie Chaplin. How did a street child, born in one of the most underprivileged districts of London, become the most famous man in the world in the space of a few years? How did cinema, just verging on adulthood, free itself from Music Hall and Vaudeville to burst into modernity, evolving from fairground attraction to a fortune generating industry? Our film relives the success of Chaplin, going beyond the era and fashions, and examines the birth of an icon. We explore the mystery of this almost instant success, and the universality of a silhouette that has lasted for over a century.