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Why is my heart so light?
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Why are the stars so bright?
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Why is the sky so blue
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Since the hour I met you?
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Flowers are smiling bright
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Smiling for our delight
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Smiling so tenderly
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For the world, you and me
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I know why the world is smiling
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Smiling so tenderly
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I have no design for living:
no philosophy.
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Whether sage or fool,
we must all struggle with life.
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We who have lived
a little longer...
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become a little more
estranged...
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as we journey on our way.
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Christmas 1977
has brought sadness.
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Early this morning...
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with the death
of Charles Spencer Chaplin...
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the world of films lost one of
its greatest artists.
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Time isn't that important to me.
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I remember him always
with a tinge of...
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of sadness.
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He was a... he was a sweet man.
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The happiest thing
which happened in his life...
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is meeting my mother.
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I think that if he'd gone on
making silent films...
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he would have seemed like
a pioneer once again.
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He seemed to be happy.
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A little bit out of touch,
but that was quite charming.
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I was always impressed
by his humble nature...
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by his true modesty...
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and by his sincerity.
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He really did love
his children...
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but I had a lot of problems
with him...
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when I started growing up.
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And I think that's because
his own, um...
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his own background was
very different from...
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from his children's background.
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I was working on a film,
and I said...
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"My father's dying.
Can I go home?"
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It was Christmas,
so we weren't shooting.
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And they said, "No, you can't.
You're making a movie".
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So I couldn't go home.
I couldn't say good-bye to him.
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I remember the images...
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the sort of dark images...
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of the body being put down
into the earth.
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He had a great life,
and I think, you know...
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you couldn't ask for
anything more.
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For my mother,
it was completely different.
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I mean, she really...
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She'd lost someone who,
you know...
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counted enormously for her...
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and she was very...
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We were just thinking of her
at the time, I think.
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We weren't used to having people
standing round...
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watching us work.
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It was at the end, when
the photographers turned up...
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that it got a bit annoying.
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Everything happened
very quickly...
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so the time you realize it
and it can sink in...
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And then at the same time...
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you have other people coming
and saying...
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"Now, look, the funeral's done.
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"Come and do interviews.
Come and do... "
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And, uh, it's not nice...
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because it's a very aggressive
environment.
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Three months
after the funeral...
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the name "Chaplin"
was again in the headlines.
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The macabre, tragic story
had 2 main actors:
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a Pole and a Bulgarian...
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who dug up
Charles Chaplin's coffin...
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and demanded $600,000
from the family for its return.
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Playing for time...
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Chaplin's daughter Geraldine
conducted the negotiations.
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Finally, the police moved in
and arrested the pathetic pair.
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That was a nightmare.
That was the worst nightmare.
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I mean, I don't really
want to even remember.
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It was a horrible thing to do.
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The body snatchers were judged
and sentenced.
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They had reburied the coffin
in a corn field.
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Today, the place of Charles
Chaplin's second burial...
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is marked by a cross
and a memorial stone.
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At the beginning of the fifties,
the Cold War was at its height.
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America was in the grip of
anti-Communist hysteria...
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whipped up
by Senator Joe McCarthy.
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Chaplin was among those
branded as Red sympathizers.
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For organizing Communist cells:
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holding Communist meetings
in his home.
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When ordered by the committee...
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for investigation of un-American
activities...
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to prove his loyalty
to the U.S.A...
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Chaplin replied
with cutting sarcasm...
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I'm no Communist agitator.
I'm an agitator for peace.
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The F.B.I. had been watching
Chaplin for years...
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and the file they had kept
on him since 1922...
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now ran to 1,900 pages.
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In September 1952...
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Chaplin and his family boarded
the "Queen Elizabeth... "
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bound for Europe.
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They would never return.
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We were totally unaware of
anything...
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I mean,
of the political aspects.
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I mean, I was less than
6 years old.
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He certainly cast
a light also...
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on certain anomalies
of American existence.
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In Europe, Chaplin's
latest film, "Limelight... "
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received a wildly enthusiastic
reception.
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But his smiling face in public
belied his problems.
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A return to America became more
and more doubtful.
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On the second of December,
1952...
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he left London by air
for Switzerland.
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Among the passengers arriving at
Geneva airport from London...
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were a very distinguished-
looking gentleman...
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and his young wife.
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The lady was the daughter...
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of the celebrated dramatist
Eugene O'Neill:
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her husband
a certain Mr. Chaplin...
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none other than the one and only
Charlie Chaplin.
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Oh, thank you so much.
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I don't think so...
not at this time.
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They've come for a holiday
in the mountains...
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and are staying till Christmas.
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Oh, uh, Christmas.
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Soon they set off by car
for Lausanne.
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This was not Chaplin's
first visit to Switzerland.
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Between December 1931
and the following March...
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he had spent the winter season
at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz.
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He was invited to St. Moritz...
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by his closest friend from
Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks.
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His half-brother Sydney...
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who helped in laying
the foundations...
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for Chaplin's commercial
success...
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also came to the mountains.
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Here, he poses with a Citroën
car manufacturer and his family.
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The former receptionist
of the Palace Hotel...
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has vivid memories
of his guests.
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They weren't much good on skis.
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Charlie Chaplin liked the breaks
better than the action.
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He didn't seem as funny
as I thought he'd be...
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but he was always friendly...
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and gave the impression
of sincere cordiality.
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Now and again,
he'd play a trick.
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Once he swore
that his great-grandfather...
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was named Capelli
and came from Oberkuln.
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Sometimes he didn't feel like
partying...
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and he'd fade into
the background.
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But when he was in the mood,
anything could happen.
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Once, in front of everybody,
he collapsed and lay motionless.
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We all thought he was dead.
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The doctor was called...
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and Charlie suddenly
came back to life.
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He had fooled us all.
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Chaplin liked the discretion
and seclusion he found...
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in calm and conventional
Switzerland.
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As early as 1932...
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he had told a German journalist
that he was weary of America.
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I can't imagine living the rest
of my life...
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in the California sunshine.
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This was the time
when the Little Tramp...
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sometimes felt homesick
for Europe.
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After landing in Geneva...
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the Chaplins drove off
to Lausanne the same day.
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Only a handful of press
reporters and onlookers...
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saw them arrive.
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When I got to
the Beau Rivage Hotel...
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the luggage
was just being unloaded.
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I had a notebook with me...
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and when I spotted Chaplin,
I handed it to him...
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and he wrote his autograph
and a little message...
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and then I left.
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Yves Debraine,
a press photographer...
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approached Chaplin and Oona
outside the hotel...
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and recommended
a smart restaurant.
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They appreciated
his friendliness...
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and eventually he became the
family's regular photographer.
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Fifty years later...
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Chaplin's son Michael meets
Debraine in the same restaurant.
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My parents were searching
for a house...
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not... not having planned
to have to live in Europe.
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Following Chaplin's exile
from America...
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Oona urged him to seek
a lasting solution.
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In the interim...
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the family continued living
in the hotel for several months.
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The Beau Rivage... I remember it
as something... as rather sad.
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My mother used to sit
at the window and look...
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and there was nothing.
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It was just gray.
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The first day that, finally,
the other side of the lake...
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we saw those beautiful
mountains...
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my mother was,
"Oh, but it's pretty here".
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Chaplin looked around Gstaad...
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but found the surrounding
mountains oppressive.
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Above Vevey, and overlooking
the lake of Geneva...
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he found a 15-room house
that seemed ideal...
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the Manoir de Ban.
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For him and his wife...
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and their children
Geraldine, Michael...
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Josephine, and Victoria...
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this house became
their microcosm.
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From it,
he looked out on the world...
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and the world came
to his doorstep.
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I don't actually remember them...
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a moment when they told me
we wouldn't go back...
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but my mother tells me that
I was constantly asking her...
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"When are we gonna go back
to America?"
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And, of course, this was quite
disturbing for her...
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because she knew that
we wouldn't go back.
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The children lived
on the top floor.
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My mother and father lived on
the first floor.
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My mother and father would have
breakfast together...
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in this room or on the terrace
if it was a nice day...
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and then my father
would start working.
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My mother had all kinds of
different jobs.
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You know, she'd pay the bills...
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but as well, she did the menu
for the day.
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At lunchtime,
they would eat together...
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and my father would work again.
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6:30, he always had an apéritif
with my mother...
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and then at quarter to 7:00,
we would all eat together.
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If I think of it now, it was
at times a lot of happiness...
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a lot of gaiety, a lot of...
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And then when my mother was
alone after my father's death...
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it was a terrible place...
spooky, haunted, awful.
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The traumatic flight
left painful traces.
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Chaplin broke off all contacts
with the U.S.A...
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and the local population
was delighted...
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that the famous man
would be living among them.
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I received a phone call...
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asking whether Mr. Chaplin
could come...
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to have his passport photos
taken.
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Naturally,
it was quite an event...
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to have Chaplin himself
here in my studio.
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I'd decided to settle
in Switzerland...
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and now we'd begun
to divest ourselves...
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of every tie
in the United States.
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Oona decided to give up
her American citizenship.
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To our amazement...
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we discovered that
the Manoir de Ban has 37 acres.
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In front of the terrace...
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is a 5-acre lawn
with magnificent tall trees...
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and an orchard to which,
in season...
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no matter where we are,
we make a special pilgrimage.
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Only a short while after moving
into the Manoir de Ban...
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the Chaplins discovered
an unexpected nuisance.
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Chaplin came to look around
the property...
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with the idea of buying it.
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It was winter, and there was
no shooting going on.
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But one day after he moved in...
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he realized that the rifle range
was very close to his house.
250
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At that time,
the army also used the range...
251
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sometimes from 7:00
in the morning...
252
00:15:14,647 --> 00:15:16,945
and Chaplin was very,
very angry.
253
00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:24,847
Chaplin complained
about the noise...
254
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from the rifle range nearby.
255
00:15:27,059 --> 00:15:29,027
The headlines were merciless.
256
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A year-long legal fight began...
257
00:15:31,330 --> 00:15:33,696
and the legendary defensive
readiness of the Swiss...
258
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came out best.
259
00:15:35,334 --> 00:15:37,962
Chaplin had to agree to
a compromise.
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Later, in his film
"A King in New York... "
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the noise of firing
was the subject of a gag.
262
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This row?
Isn't this rather close?
263
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It's the best we could get, sir.
264
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Stick 'em up! This is it!
265
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Let's go.
266
00:16:07,766 --> 00:16:09,825
It went against everything that
he thought of Switzerland...
267
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his idea of Switzerland being
in peace and quiet.
268
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He even talked about leaving
at one point...
269
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selling and moving on
somewhere else.
270
00:16:20,612 --> 00:16:23,103
But really, he was...
he really loved being here.
271
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He loved this house.
272
00:16:44,870 --> 00:16:47,703
Chaplin explores
his new surroundings.
273
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With his half-brother Sydney
behind the camera...
274
00:16:49,908 --> 00:16:53,810
he watches the wine harvest
festival in Vevey.
275
00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:56,347
After having lunch
and sampling the atmosphere...
276
00:16:56,415 --> 00:17:00,249
Charles Chaplin was introduced
to the ex-queen of Italy.
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Later, the famous actor...
278
00:17:01,887 --> 00:17:03,878
who was apparently
a left-hander...
279
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signed the visitors book.
280
00:17:05,791 --> 00:17:09,158
You don't have to decipher the
signature to know who wrote it.
281
00:17:09,228 --> 00:17:12,561
Madame Oona Chaplin was also
among the guests of royalty.
282
00:17:15,968 --> 00:17:19,495
Charles Chaplin was 63
when he moved to Switzerland.
283
00:17:19,571 --> 00:17:21,095
Despite all his efforts...
284
00:17:21,173 --> 00:17:23,664
learning French
turned out to be difficult.
285
00:17:33,018 --> 00:17:36,419
He desperately wanted to learn
French, and he really tried.
286
00:17:36,488 --> 00:17:37,580
For the first time
in his life...
287
00:17:37,656 --> 00:17:39,214
he found something
that he could not do...
288
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because he could do everything.
289
00:17:40,692 --> 00:17:42,660
And he'd wake up
at 5:00 in the morning.
290
00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:45,526
He had his Berlitz records
and books...
291
00:17:45,597 --> 00:17:46,723
and he'd get up, and he'd go...
292
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He could never do it.
293
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We love Vevey.
294
00:18:02,514 --> 00:18:04,379
We like the people.
295
00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:08,284
They are charming, hospitable,
and genuine.
296
00:18:14,426 --> 00:18:16,053
And I think...
297
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that is one important thing
in the world today...
298
00:18:20,732 --> 00:18:25,999
that people are genuine
and kindly.
299
00:18:26,071 --> 00:18:30,838
Uh, you have a lot of talent
in Vevey...
300
00:18:30,909 --> 00:18:38,315
and perhaps sometime I may see
fit to put them in a picture.
301
00:18:38,383 --> 00:18:39,509
Thank you, Mr. Chaplin.
302
00:18:46,358 --> 00:18:48,622
He had no plans to stop working.
303
00:18:48,694 --> 00:18:50,218
As soon as
he had settled down...
304
00:18:50,295 --> 00:18:52,661
Chaplin started writing
the film script...
305
00:18:52,731 --> 00:18:54,358
"A King in New York... "
306
00:18:54,433 --> 00:18:56,958
based on his negative
experiences in America.
307
00:19:00,072 --> 00:19:01,369
I could have gone to London...
308
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,965
to watch them shooting
"A King in New York".
309
00:19:05,110 --> 00:19:07,442
Madame Chaplin had managed to
get permission...
310
00:19:07,513 --> 00:19:10,004
for me to get away
from school...
311
00:19:10,082 --> 00:19:12,346
but my father refused
to let me go...
312
00:19:12,417 --> 00:19:14,510
because he said
he didn't know these people.
313
00:19:17,589 --> 00:19:20,023
"A King in New York"
premiered in London.
314
00:19:20,092 --> 00:19:23,550
This film was shown in America
only 19 years later.
315
00:19:23,629 --> 00:19:25,494
Michael acted with his father.
316
00:19:25,564 --> 00:19:29,056
When I'd gone to see
"The Great Dictator... "
317
00:19:29,134 --> 00:19:32,831
I did an imitation of him
imitating Hitler.
318
00:19:32,905 --> 00:19:35,874
And he thought
that was quite funny...
319
00:19:35,941 --> 00:19:37,533
and I think that he...
320
00:19:37,609 --> 00:19:40,339
gave him the idea of putting me
in the part.
321
00:19:40,412 --> 00:19:42,004
- How do you do, Rupert?
- How do you do?
322
00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,445
Sit down.
323
00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:45,346
And what's that you're reading?
324
00:19:45,417 --> 00:19:46,884
Karl Marx.
325
00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:48,715
Surely you're not a Communist.
326
00:19:48,787 --> 00:19:50,948
Do I have to be a Communist
to read Karl Marx?
327
00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:53,014
Rupert!
328
00:19:53,091 --> 00:19:54,615
That's a valid answer.
329
00:19:55,661 --> 00:19:58,152
Well, if you're not a Communist,
what are you?
330
00:19:58,230 --> 00:19:59,891
- Nothing.
- Nothing?
331
00:19:59,965 --> 00:20:02,092
I dislike all forms
of government.
332
00:20:02,167 --> 00:20:04,226
But somebody must rule.
333
00:20:04,303 --> 00:20:06,430
And I don't like
the word "rule".
334
00:20:06,505 --> 00:20:08,234
Well, if we don't like
the word "rule... "
335
00:20:08,307 --> 00:20:09,968
let's call it leadership.
336
00:20:10,042 --> 00:20:12,203
Leadership in government
is political power...
337
00:20:12,277 --> 00:20:13,904
and political power's
an official form...
338
00:20:13,979 --> 00:20:15,446
of antagonizing the people.
339
00:20:16,748 --> 00:20:18,773
What magazine
did you say he edits?
340
00:20:18,850 --> 00:20:22,377
For once, I really had a...
341
00:20:22,454 --> 00:20:25,389
a memorable moment of
communication with him...
342
00:20:25,457 --> 00:20:27,721
which I don't think I...
343
00:20:27,793 --> 00:20:30,489
It was more intense than
anything I had with him...
344
00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:31,688
before or after.
345
00:20:39,671 --> 00:20:42,834
In his self-chosen Swiss exile
in 1953...
346
00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:46,400
Chaplin met the Romanian-born
pianist Clara Haskil...
347
00:20:46,478 --> 00:20:48,639
and a firm friendship developed.
348
00:20:50,682 --> 00:20:53,378
After a concert
with a Hungarian quartet...
349
00:20:53,452 --> 00:20:55,750
my parents organized
a reception...
350
00:20:55,821 --> 00:20:58,381
and Charles Chaplin
turned up alone.
351
00:20:58,457 --> 00:21:01,221
It was his first meeting
with Clara Haskil...
352
00:21:01,293 --> 00:21:02,385
and subsequently...
353
00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:05,988
we were regularly invited to
the Chaplin home at Christmas.
354
00:21:12,971 --> 00:21:16,930
And she sat at the piano
and played.
355
00:21:17,009 --> 00:21:19,136
When she'd finished...
356
00:21:19,211 --> 00:21:22,408
I went up to her in my naive way
and I said...
357
00:21:22,481 --> 00:21:27,544
"But you... you are
a very great artist".
358
00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:28,745
And she smiled.
359
00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:34,756
Clara Haskil would come
every Christmas for dinner...
360
00:21:34,826 --> 00:21:36,020
with the Rossiers...
361
00:21:36,094 --> 00:21:39,427
and we would have a wonderful
American dinner.
362
00:21:39,498 --> 00:21:42,899
And after dinner,
Clara would play the piano...
363
00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:46,131
and we would all be...
my father would weep.
364
00:21:47,339 --> 00:21:54,711
And then he would show a movie,
and Clara would laugh and weep.
365
00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:57,044
And they just...
they adored each other.
366
00:22:04,423 --> 00:22:07,187
In 1960,
at Brussels train station...
367
00:22:07,259 --> 00:22:09,193
Clara Haskil tripped
on a stairway...
368
00:22:09,261 --> 00:22:11,729
and sustained
severe head injuries.
369
00:22:11,797 --> 00:22:13,662
A few hours later, she died.
370
00:22:13,732 --> 00:22:16,462
In my lifetime...
371
00:22:16,535 --> 00:22:20,096
I have met 3 geniuses:
372
00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:23,107
Professor Einstein,
Winston Churchill...
373
00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:25,905
and Clara Haskil.
374
00:22:25,977 --> 00:22:29,845
I'm not a trained musician...
375
00:22:29,915 --> 00:22:35,353
but I can only say that
her touch was exquisite...
376
00:22:35,420 --> 00:22:37,684
her expression wonderful...
377
00:22:37,756 --> 00:22:40,486
and her technique extraordinary.
378
00:22:45,497 --> 00:22:47,556
Four other children were born
in Switzerland:
379
00:22:47,632 --> 00:22:49,156
Eugene, Jane, Annette...
380
00:22:49,234 --> 00:22:52,692
and finally, in 1962,
Christopher.
381
00:22:52,771 --> 00:22:55,001
With his fourth wife,
Oona O'Neill...
382
00:22:55,073 --> 00:22:56,904
Chaplin had found happiness.
383
00:22:59,978 --> 00:23:07,612
My mother, uh, was the backbone
for my father, you know.
384
00:23:07,686 --> 00:23:10,177
He depended on her a lot.
385
00:23:10,255 --> 00:23:12,849
She spent more time with us
than my father.
386
00:23:12,924 --> 00:23:15,984
She really wanted to know
how our life was.
387
00:23:19,664 --> 00:23:22,155
They looked to me
like a perfect couple.
388
00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:24,930
He lived for her
and she for him.
389
00:23:25,003 --> 00:23:26,163
If he looked at a flower...
390
00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:29,366
she would ask why he did so
without consulting her.
391
00:23:32,744 --> 00:23:35,372
She obviously wanted to leave
the impression...
392
00:23:35,447 --> 00:23:38,041
that she was a good wife...
393
00:23:38,116 --> 00:23:40,141
which is always
very praiseworthy...
394
00:23:40,218 --> 00:23:42,778
because you don't get
that feeling very often.
395
00:23:42,854 --> 00:23:44,048
They enclosed themselves...
396
00:23:44,122 --> 00:23:45,783
my mother and my father...
in that Manoir de Ban.
397
00:23:45,857 --> 00:23:47,484
That was their microcosm.
They lived there.
398
00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:50,494
They lived this great, huge,
eternal romance there.
399
00:23:50,562 --> 00:23:53,463
She was totally dependent
on him...
400
00:23:53,532 --> 00:23:55,693
and that gradually turned
the other way round...
401
00:23:55,767 --> 00:23:57,997
where he was totally dependent
on her.
402
00:24:13,418 --> 00:24:18,378
Daddy was the president
and the minister of interior.
403
00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:21,290
Mummy was the foreign relations.
404
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,851
My mother used to write us
letters.
405
00:24:24,930 --> 00:24:26,056
Even when we were at home...
406
00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:29,225
we'd get a little letter slipped
under the door saying...
407
00:24:29,301 --> 00:24:31,098
"I didn't approve of
what you've done... "
408
00:24:31,169 --> 00:24:33,000
or "Your father doesn't
approve... " or whatever.
409
00:24:33,071 --> 00:24:35,938
But we never actually got
together for family discussions.
410
00:24:36,007 --> 00:24:38,339
He was a good father,
that's for sure...
411
00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:40,935
but he didn't want to be
disturbed...
412
00:24:41,012 --> 00:24:42,946
by noises in the house.
413
00:24:43,014 --> 00:24:48,247
He was a bit
looking at his daughters.
414
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,413
The girls were favorites.
415
00:24:55,193 --> 00:24:58,890
Comical Uncle Sydney was always
a favorite with the family.
416
00:24:58,964 --> 00:25:00,864
He was a great eccentric.
417
00:25:00,932 --> 00:25:04,299
He lived in America...
in California.
418
00:25:04,369 --> 00:25:05,996
He never had a house.
419
00:25:06,071 --> 00:25:07,663
He was a very rich man:
never had a house.
420
00:25:07,739 --> 00:25:09,536
He lived in a... in a caravan.
421
00:25:09,608 --> 00:25:13,203
Uncle Sydney would come over
at least once a week...
422
00:25:13,278 --> 00:25:14,472
with Aunt Gypsy...
423
00:25:14,546 --> 00:25:18,277
and my father and Uncle Sydney
would speak in pig Latin.
424
00:25:19,417 --> 00:25:21,817
And they would speak
in rhyming slang.
425
00:25:21,887 --> 00:25:24,014
No one would understand them...
the Cockney rhyming slang.
426
00:25:25,957 --> 00:25:29,518
A frequent visitor to the Manoir
de Ban was Jerry Epstein...
427
00:25:29,594 --> 00:25:32,563
who produced
Chaplin's later films.
428
00:25:32,631 --> 00:25:35,623
Celebrities from all over the
world traveled to meet Chaplin.
429
00:25:37,869 --> 00:25:40,463
The novelist Graham Greene
was a regular visitor...
430
00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:42,302
to the Chaplins' home
above Vevey.
431
00:25:42,374 --> 00:25:45,434
He knew Chaplin
for many years...
432
00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:47,705
and it was an on-and-off
relationship.
433
00:25:47,779 --> 00:25:52,011
They would meet when my father
came over to Switzerland.
434
00:25:52,083 --> 00:25:55,484
Um, I... I expect
they corresponded.
435
00:25:55,554 --> 00:26:00,218
We saw a Charlie Chaplin film
at the Manoir...
436
00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:02,624
and that was the one
about the dictator.
437
00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:04,992
He was very proud to show
the movie.
438
00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:11,625
Taking an interest in the Swiss
film industry...
439
00:26:11,703 --> 00:26:13,796
he met actress
Liselotte Pulver...
440
00:26:13,872 --> 00:26:16,067
the star of a Swiss
film classic.
441
00:26:16,141 --> 00:26:18,666
I lost immediately the respect.
442
00:26:18,743 --> 00:26:20,142
I didn't think that he was...
443
00:26:20,211 --> 00:26:23,840
the greatest film director
of all time.
444
00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:29,080
And, of course, I hoped that
he would give me a part...
445
00:26:29,154 --> 00:26:32,351
for instance,
in one of his future films...
446
00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:35,916
but he just signed my script.
447
00:26:35,994 --> 00:26:37,928
He went to the government
afterwards...
448
00:26:37,996 --> 00:26:39,088
and when he went away...
449
00:26:39,164 --> 00:26:42,327
I had the impression
it's an old friend of mine.
450
00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:52,908
The same day, Chaplin was also
invited to Bern...
451
00:26:52,978 --> 00:26:55,811
where he met the federal
councilor Philipp Etter.
452
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,043
On a sheet of government-
letterheaded paper, he wrote...
453
00:26:59,117 --> 00:27:01,347
Hope I meet you some day.
454
00:27:01,419 --> 00:27:02,909
But it was not to be.
455
00:27:02,988 --> 00:27:04,580
From the corridors of power...
456
00:27:04,656 --> 00:27:07,523
eyes were watching him
very carefully.
457
00:27:07,592 --> 00:27:09,025
Just as in America...
458
00:27:09,094 --> 00:27:12,461
pages of notes and observations
were being accumulated.
459
00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:23,505
Swiss police officers kept
a watch on the actor's home.
460
00:27:23,575 --> 00:27:28,069
Uninvited observers were nearby
when, at the Manoir de Ban...
461
00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:30,444
Chaplin received
the international peace prize...
462
00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:31,675
awarded by Russia.
463
00:27:33,918 --> 00:27:36,318
This photo was taken
by Yves Debraine...
464
00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:39,016
who was a guest
at the presentation ceremony.
465
00:27:39,090 --> 00:27:41,888
The Swiss police
was in civilian clothes...
466
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,928
and there were
a few people there.
467
00:27:48,633 --> 00:27:51,568
The guardians of
national security were busy.
468
00:27:51,636 --> 00:27:54,298
The names of all present
were carefully noted...
469
00:27:54,372 --> 00:27:58,809
and Chief Inspector Campiche
sent a full report to Bern.
470
00:27:58,877 --> 00:28:01,744
I heard that, and I didn't want
to read about it...
471
00:28:01,813 --> 00:28:02,939
because I love Switzerland...
472
00:28:03,014 --> 00:28:04,845
and I just think
it's so disgusting.
473
00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:14,891
The Swiss federal police
are finally observed...
474
00:28:14,959 --> 00:28:17,860
about 900,000 people.
475
00:28:17,929 --> 00:28:19,021
In this context...
476
00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:23,158
you find also the observation
of Charlie Chaplin.
477
00:28:23,234 --> 00:28:25,168
I think that his private life...
478
00:28:25,236 --> 00:28:30,503
didn't really been spied out
very well...
479
00:28:30,575 --> 00:28:32,509
but only his contacts...
480
00:28:32,577 --> 00:28:36,673
to cultural personalities
of the Eastern bloc.
481
00:28:51,963 --> 00:28:55,296
Switzerland's own Knie Circus
comes to Lausanne.
482
00:28:55,366 --> 00:28:57,994
This evening,
there's a famous performer:
483
00:28:58,069 --> 00:29:00,560
Charlie Chaplin himself.
484
00:29:00,638 --> 00:29:02,469
Or so it seems.
485
00:29:02,540 --> 00:29:07,409
The real Charlie Chaplin is in
the audience with his wife Oona.
486
00:29:07,479 --> 00:29:09,913
The fake Charlie Chaplin
bows low.
487
00:29:09,981 --> 00:29:12,176
The real Chaplin
congratulates him.
488
00:29:14,686 --> 00:29:16,745
He always came with
the first trailers...
489
00:29:16,821 --> 00:29:20,416
and the first animals
who came to the place.
490
00:29:20,492 --> 00:29:22,585
He was also there.
491
00:29:22,660 --> 00:29:26,619
He looked at the circus...
how we put it up...
492
00:29:26,698 --> 00:29:28,962
and he asked us was it new.
493
00:29:29,033 --> 00:29:30,398
"What did you change?"
494
00:29:32,704 --> 00:29:34,296
Chaplin's eldest son Michael...
495
00:29:34,372 --> 00:29:38,172
gets a ride on a donkey
given to him by the circus.
496
00:29:38,243 --> 00:29:41,041
His famous father
is asked to say a few words.
497
00:29:49,654 --> 00:29:52,521
Tonight, we've seen Chaplin
again in the big top.
498
00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:56,692
My father loved the circus...
499
00:29:56,761 --> 00:29:59,753
because I think it's the nearest
form of art to the music hall.
500
00:30:23,121 --> 00:30:24,383
He loved circus.
501
00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:27,913
There was 4 or 5 days
he stayed around the circus.
502
00:30:27,992 --> 00:30:31,359
He was backstage
and the afternoons.
503
00:30:31,429 --> 00:30:34,262
I remember when I was
a little child...
504
00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:36,960
he invited all the childrens
from the circus...
505
00:30:37,035 --> 00:30:40,300
to have tea and cakes
at his home.
506
00:30:40,371 --> 00:30:41,565
And then in this moment...
507
00:30:41,639 --> 00:30:44,767
he always showed us some little
tricks from the movies.
508
00:30:45,743 --> 00:30:47,677
Chaplin's silent film
"The Circus... "
509
00:30:47,745 --> 00:30:49,872
won him an Oscar in 1929.
510
00:30:56,621 --> 00:30:58,020
It was only in the sixties...
511
00:30:58,089 --> 00:31:00,614
that Chaplin wrote the music
for this film.
512
00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:03,252
I say this
without any false modesty.
513
00:31:03,328 --> 00:31:06,456
I think it has a certain charm,
you know?
514
00:31:06,531 --> 00:31:07,623
A certain charm.
515
00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:10,065
And you have. You have.
516
00:31:13,104 --> 00:31:17,564
During his life, Charles Chaplin
composed about 500 melodies:
517
00:31:17,642 --> 00:31:20,907
more than 200 of them
during his years in Switzerland.
518
00:31:20,979 --> 00:31:22,674
Charlie's...
519
00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:23,839
was in a unique position...
520
00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:29,251
to be able to hear the music
in his head very clearly...
521
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,221
and the orchestration also
in his head.
522
00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:34,383
Possibly the most significant
influence...
523
00:31:34,459 --> 00:31:36,689
that Chaplin exercised
on film music...
524
00:31:36,761 --> 00:31:38,626
was to focus it on song.
525
00:31:45,603 --> 00:31:46,831
He never learned music.
526
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:48,839
He couldn't read music
or write music...
527
00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:50,238
but he would compose
on the piano...
528
00:31:50,308 --> 00:31:51,775
with a tape recorder going.
529
00:32:02,453 --> 00:32:05,911
He would have an arranger
next to him...
530
00:32:05,990 --> 00:32:08,857
which was Eric James
at the time...
531
00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:11,293
and he would write down
all the music notes.
532
00:32:12,563 --> 00:32:13,689
On 1...
533
00:32:21,072 --> 00:32:22,835
and they're about
halfway through.
534
00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:26,268
When he was writing his
autobiography, for instance...
535
00:32:26,344 --> 00:32:28,642
he'd come in and sit.
"Look, Oona. Read this".
536
00:32:28,713 --> 00:32:31,079
And she'd read it and she'd say,
"Well, I don't like this".
537
00:32:31,149 --> 00:32:34,016
"What?!" And he would get
furious and...
538
00:32:34,085 --> 00:32:35,677
but really like a beast...
539
00:32:35,753 --> 00:32:40,156
and get in a terrible state
and change it.
540
00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:46,461
After that, I have a notion
to make a very large comedy...
541
00:32:46,531 --> 00:32:49,364
what one would call
an extravaganza:
542
00:32:49,434 --> 00:32:51,629
an extravaganza.
543
00:32:51,703 --> 00:32:54,968
Um, and it's merely
a notion now.
544
00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:57,337
It's... I have several ideas...
545
00:32:57,408 --> 00:33:03,347
but the thing hasn't...
hasn't any form at present.
546
00:33:06,084 --> 00:33:07,984
Ysobel Deluz
was one of the first...
547
00:33:08,052 --> 00:33:11,954
to work closely with
Charles Chaplin in Switzerland.
548
00:33:12,023 --> 00:33:13,456
She was his secretary.
549
00:33:14,525 --> 00:33:16,459
Sometimes it was like
a crazy film.
550
00:33:16,527 --> 00:33:17,789
He'd say, "Leave that out... "
551
00:33:17,862 --> 00:33:19,489
and a little later,
"Did you get that?
552
00:33:19,564 --> 00:33:20,963
"Did you note what I said?"
553
00:33:21,032 --> 00:33:23,023
I'd say, "No.
You told me not to".
554
00:33:23,101 --> 00:33:24,728
He would fly into a rage
and shout...
555
00:33:24,802 --> 00:33:26,997
"How can I work if you don't put
everything down?"
556
00:33:29,207 --> 00:33:32,199
Chaplin's outbursts of temper
could be terrifying.
557
00:33:32,276 --> 00:33:35,245
Ysobel Deluz had a nervous
breakdown and was dismissed.
558
00:33:35,313 --> 00:33:37,838
She took Chaplin to court
and won.
559
00:33:39,384 --> 00:33:40,976
He had a natural authority.
560
00:33:41,052 --> 00:33:42,986
You had to be extremely
careful...
561
00:33:43,054 --> 00:33:45,545
and above all,
avoid treading on his feet.
562
00:33:46,958 --> 00:33:48,220
He had a couple of people
who left...
563
00:33:48,292 --> 00:33:49,418
and who sued him afterwards:
564
00:33:49,494 --> 00:33:52,554
a couple of ugly, ugly episodes.
565
00:33:52,630 --> 00:33:56,122
However, most people
liked to work for Chaplin.
566
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,294
Gabriele Di Rito was
his hairdresser for 12 years.
567
00:34:01,406 --> 00:34:03,670
We communicated eye to eye.
568
00:34:03,741 --> 00:34:06,403
He seemed to trust me
to do a good job...
569
00:34:06,477 --> 00:34:09,742
and I was happy to work for
such a celebrity.
570
00:34:09,814 --> 00:34:13,841
I asked 70 francs for cutting
Charlie Chaplin's hair.
571
00:34:13,918 --> 00:34:16,011
Madame Chaplin paid me
beforehand...
572
00:34:16,087 --> 00:34:17,987
and then left for shopping.
573
00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:19,284
At the end...
574
00:34:19,357 --> 00:34:23,157
Monsieur Chaplin slipped a
100-franc note into my pocket...
575
00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:24,660
and tapped me on the shoulder.
576
00:34:29,033 --> 00:34:31,126
Very, very nice.
Very, very nice.
577
00:34:36,174 --> 00:34:38,642
Charles Chaplin chose
his 70th birthday...
578
00:34:38,709 --> 00:34:41,837
to express, yet again,
his political opinions.
579
00:34:41,913 --> 00:34:45,110
I feel I am privileged
to express a hope.
580
00:34:45,183 --> 00:34:49,142
The hope is this... that we shall
have peace throughout the world:
581
00:34:49,220 --> 00:34:50,551
that we shall abolish wars...
582
00:34:50,621 --> 00:34:52,384
and settle all international
differences...
583
00:34:52,457 --> 00:34:54,391
at the conference table:
584
00:34:54,459 --> 00:34:57,394
that we shall abolish all atom
and hydrogen bombs...
585
00:34:57,462 --> 00:34:59,487
before they abolish us.
586
00:34:59,564 --> 00:35:03,056
The future of the modern world
demands modern thinking.
587
00:35:17,448 --> 00:35:20,747
My father had a great talent
which not a lot of people have.
588
00:35:20,818 --> 00:35:23,116
He started from nothing
and made a lot of money.
589
00:35:23,187 --> 00:35:25,985
But the second thing is,
and the hardest thing...
590
00:35:26,057 --> 00:35:29,618
is to enjoy the money
they've made.
591
00:35:29,694 --> 00:35:31,286
He'd go traveling.
He'd go to Italy.
592
00:35:31,362 --> 00:35:32,761
He loved going down to Italy.
593
00:35:54,619 --> 00:36:00,319
Mr. Chaplin rented the chalet
from 1962 to 1965.
594
00:36:00,391 --> 00:36:02,484
When he engaged me,
I asked him...
595
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,619
"Have you already done
some skiing?"
596
00:36:04,695 --> 00:36:06,162
And he said, "Oh, yes.
597
00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:08,892
"I was in St. Moritz
when I was younger...
598
00:36:08,966 --> 00:36:10,900
"and I learned to ski there".
599
00:36:10,968 --> 00:36:12,868
So he said, "Good.
600
00:36:12,937 --> 00:36:16,532
"I'll go in front, and you just
follow in my tracks".
601
00:36:16,607 --> 00:36:19,770
He was really very serious:
scared of falling.
602
00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:22,369
Not a bit like Charlie Chaplin
in the films.
603
00:36:24,482 --> 00:36:27,781
He found that it was a lot
harder than he'd expected...
604
00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:32,687
and he had a few dramatic falls,
but it was quite funny.
605
00:36:33,758 --> 00:36:37,250
I think he just wanted to show
Michael that he knew how to ski.
606
00:36:37,328 --> 00:36:38,761
That was his real aim.
607
00:36:50,675 --> 00:36:53,508
In 1966, shooting began
on his last film...
608
00:36:53,578 --> 00:36:55,068
"A Countess from Hong Kong".
609
00:36:55,146 --> 00:36:58,047
He was working with
a whole new team of people...
610
00:36:58,115 --> 00:37:00,948
and he was held
by a time schedule...
611
00:37:01,018 --> 00:37:03,680
which he never had
that problem before.
612
00:37:03,754 --> 00:37:05,085
He would play every part...
613
00:37:05,156 --> 00:37:07,249
and he'd always play it better
than anyone.
614
00:37:07,325 --> 00:37:09,259
And with Sophia Loren...
615
00:37:10,828 --> 00:37:13,456
he would be more Sophia Loren
than Sophia Loren.
616
00:37:13,531 --> 00:37:16,022
He'd do the part,
and he was Sophia Loren.
617
00:37:19,270 --> 00:37:20,601
Did I startle you?
618
00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:28,606
Nothing was done in 3 takes.
619
00:37:28,679 --> 00:37:31,477
It was done again and again
and again and again.
620
00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:34,450
It took a lot of...
621
00:37:34,518 --> 00:37:37,214
of energy out of him
to make this film.
622
00:37:39,156 --> 00:37:42,648
His own 9-second appearance was
explained at a press conference.
623
00:37:42,727 --> 00:37:44,388
Well, in the first place,
I'm getting on.
624
00:37:44,462 --> 00:37:46,862
I'm 77 years old.
625
00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:50,594
And I believe that with
a certain amount of age...
626
00:37:50,668 --> 00:37:54,126
is something to do with
the aesthetics.
627
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,634
Excuse me. Do you mind closing
all your portholes, sir?
628
00:37:58,709 --> 00:38:00,643
Yes. It seems to be blowing up
out there.
629
00:38:00,711 --> 00:38:03,111
Oh, just a little sloppy...
nothing serious.
630
00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:04,306
Yeah.
631
00:38:06,183 --> 00:38:08,777
I've been wondering about
the immortality of the soul.
632
00:38:11,922 --> 00:38:13,014
It wasn't really much of a part.
633
00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:17,527
I had to just dance with
Marlon Brando, which was...
634
00:38:17,595 --> 00:38:18,994
"Thank you, Daddy".
635
00:38:21,265 --> 00:38:24,098
At the premiere in London,
no one knew what to expect.
636
00:38:24,168 --> 00:38:27,626
At nearly 80, was yet another
masterpiece possible?
637
00:38:27,705 --> 00:38:29,639
The entire world's press
was present...
638
00:38:29,707 --> 00:38:31,971
to see Chaplin's first
color film.
639
00:38:32,043 --> 00:38:34,170
Take off those pajamas.
640
00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:35,371
Would that look nice?
641
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:38,877
You heard what I said.
Take 'em off.
642
00:38:38,949 --> 00:38:40,473
Oh, please. My nerves.
643
00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:42,519
- Take them off.
- Oh, this is silly.
644
00:38:42,586 --> 00:38:44,281
We'll see how silly this is.
645
00:38:52,463 --> 00:38:54,055
Take 'em off.
646
00:38:54,131 --> 00:38:56,463
Oh, please. Do you want me
to call the captain?
647
00:38:56,534 --> 00:38:57,626
What a disaster.
648
00:38:57,702 --> 00:38:59,670
Really, what are we doing?
649
00:39:03,207 --> 00:39:05,266
You'll get off this boat if I...
650
00:39:06,944 --> 00:39:08,070
Who is it?
651
00:39:09,113 --> 00:39:11,411
The British critics
judged it a flop.
652
00:39:11,482 --> 00:39:14,918
"A disappointing film from
Chaplin," went the headlines.
653
00:39:16,454 --> 00:39:18,149
They were disgusting.
They really were.
654
00:39:18,222 --> 00:39:19,314
The critics were disgusting.
655
00:39:19,390 --> 00:39:20,584
It's so easy, also.
656
00:39:22,326 --> 00:39:24,624
He was extraordinarily upset.
657
00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:26,629
I think deep down he knew...
658
00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:28,722
it wasn't exactly
as he wanted it.
659
00:39:36,807 --> 00:39:39,332
Yet even here,
Chaplin reaped a success.
660
00:39:39,410 --> 00:39:41,605
His composition
"This Is My Song... "
661
00:39:41,679 --> 00:39:43,271
the film's theme tune...
662
00:39:43,347 --> 00:39:45,815
became a worldwide hit
overnight.
663
00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:49,683
When I was in Charlie's
living room...
664
00:39:49,754 --> 00:39:52,052
he was prancing around the room
singing...
665
00:39:52,123 --> 00:39:53,715
and me banging away
on the piano...
666
00:39:53,791 --> 00:39:55,725
which was a very strange scene.
667
00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:57,886
Um, but it was fun.
668
00:39:57,962 --> 00:39:59,259
And I said to him, you know...
669
00:39:59,330 --> 00:40:01,594
"OK, this is 3 big hits
you've got.
670
00:40:01,665 --> 00:40:02,825
"Do you have anything else?"
671
00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:05,596
And he said, "Yes, yes, yes.
I have many songs".
672
00:40:05,669 --> 00:40:08,604
And he took them
out of some cupboard...
673
00:40:08,672 --> 00:40:11,573
and played some of them to me.
674
00:40:11,642 --> 00:40:14,008
And they were good.
675
00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:18,037
And I've often wondered
what happened to those songs.
676
00:40:18,115 --> 00:40:24,816
And love, this is my song
677
00:40:24,889 --> 00:40:32,193
Here is a song, a serenade
678
00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:40,170
To you
679
00:40:50,915 --> 00:40:53,884
The 8 Chaplin children
were gradually growing up.
680
00:40:53,951 --> 00:40:56,385
One by one,
they left the Manoir de Ban...
681
00:40:56,454 --> 00:40:58,888
and sometimes the partings
from the family home...
682
00:40:58,956 --> 00:41:00,583
left indelible traces.
683
00:41:00,658 --> 00:41:01,750
I don't know if I left.
684
00:41:01,826 --> 00:41:03,623
I think I was kicked out,
actually.
685
00:41:05,896 --> 00:41:07,363
Well, I say I left.
686
00:41:07,431 --> 00:41:08,728
And Michael certainly left.
687
00:41:08,799 --> 00:41:11,859
When I was 16, I left home.
I ran away.
688
00:41:11,936 --> 00:41:14,837
I just couldn't live up to
what he expected of me...
689
00:41:14,905 --> 00:41:16,463
and I left without saying
where I was going.
690
00:41:16,540 --> 00:41:19,441
And I think it kind of hurt
my mother a lot...
691
00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:22,741
and he had a hard time
forgiving me for that.
692
00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:27,642
In the sixties
and the seventies...
693
00:41:27,718 --> 00:41:30,084
Charles Chaplin received
numerous honors.
694
00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:33,487
Oxford University awarded him
an honorary doctorate.
695
00:41:33,557 --> 00:41:35,957
Holland honored him in 1965.
696
00:41:37,361 --> 00:41:40,421
He said, "Unfortunately,
I've won this prize...
697
00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:43,467
"this Erasmus prize...
698
00:41:43,534 --> 00:41:47,561
"and I have to unfortunately
share it... the prize...
699
00:41:47,638 --> 00:41:48,969
"with another person.
700
00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:50,506
"I don't know who that is...
701
00:41:50,574 --> 00:41:57,946
"but I think his name
is something like, uh, um...
702
00:41:58,015 --> 00:41:59,277
"Berger.
703
00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:02,319
"Um, something Berger.
704
00:42:02,386 --> 00:42:06,516
"Uh, Ing-Ingman... Ingman Berger".
705
00:42:06,590 --> 00:42:09,320
I said, "No, Ingmar Bergman".
706
00:42:09,393 --> 00:42:11,793
"Oh. Who's that?
He's Norwegian, I'm told".
707
00:42:11,862 --> 00:42:13,420
"No, no, he's Swedish".
708
00:42:13,497 --> 00:42:15,590
"Oh, he's Swedish. Oh, yes".
709
00:42:16,967 --> 00:42:20,733
Chaplin and Peter Ustinov
were born on the 16th of April.
710
00:42:20,804 --> 00:42:22,135
Ustinov well remembers...
711
00:42:22,206 --> 00:42:24,470
the laudatory speech
he made in Amsterdam.
712
00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:25,975
I was called onto the stage...
713
00:42:26,043 --> 00:42:30,343
in order to do my soliloquy
in praise of Chaplin...
714
00:42:30,414 --> 00:42:33,008
and the applause was not one...
715
00:42:33,083 --> 00:42:36,052
which would encourage anybody
to go on speaking.
716
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,247
I finished, and suddenly...
717
00:42:40,157 --> 00:42:42,455
Tremendous applause,
and I looked around.
718
00:42:42,526 --> 00:42:43,823
I said to myself...
719
00:42:43,894 --> 00:42:47,193
"It's impossible that they've
all understood the jokes now".
720
00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:48,356
No, it wasn't that.
721
00:42:48,432 --> 00:42:51,162
It was Chaplin was on his way
to the podium...
722
00:42:51,235 --> 00:42:53,635
to push me aside
and make his speech.
723
00:42:53,704 --> 00:42:56,264
And like a well-trained comic...
724
00:42:56,340 --> 00:42:57,773
he had used me, really...
725
00:42:57,841 --> 00:43:00,207
as somebody to warm
the public up.
726
00:43:01,745 --> 00:43:04,873
Chaplin was made an honorary
citizen of Milan, Italy...
727
00:43:04,949 --> 00:43:07,144
but despite several
applications...
728
00:43:07,217 --> 00:43:10,550
he was never granted honorary
citizenship in Switzerland.
729
00:43:10,621 --> 00:43:12,282
In London, his birthplace...
730
00:43:12,356 --> 00:43:14,756
he was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth ll.
731
00:43:16,961 --> 00:43:19,452
We boarded the same flight...
American Airlines...
732
00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:21,293
from New York to Los Angeles.
733
00:43:21,365 --> 00:43:23,526
He was very happy
to see old friends.
734
00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:28,766
He was anticipating a return to
where he has been so often...
735
00:43:28,839 --> 00:43:30,101
and he was not nervous...
736
00:43:30,174 --> 00:43:33,143
but he was happily
looking forward.
737
00:43:36,113 --> 00:43:39,241
The honorary Oscar awarded for
lifetime achievement...
738
00:43:39,316 --> 00:43:40,806
was a late reconciliation...
739
00:43:40,884 --> 00:43:43,148
with the land
that had humiliated him...
740
00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:45,245
yet helped him to achieve fame.
741
00:43:45,322 --> 00:43:49,019
Oh, you're wonderful,
sweet people.
742
00:43:49,093 --> 00:43:50,321
Thank you.
743
00:43:50,394 --> 00:43:53,921
At that time, a standing ovation
was something exceptional...
744
00:43:53,998 --> 00:43:56,466
and the one for Charlie
was more exceptional...
745
00:43:56,533 --> 00:43:59,502
because of the incredible warmth
everybody gave him.
746
00:43:59,570 --> 00:44:03,131
Up there are clouds in the sky
747
00:44:03,207 --> 00:44:06,267
Oona told me
what's happened there onstage.
748
00:44:06,343 --> 00:44:07,776
He was so touched.
749
00:44:07,845 --> 00:44:11,246
He took the hand from Oona
and asked her...
750
00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:14,375
"You think they forgive me...
the Americans?"
751
00:44:19,957 --> 00:44:21,049
My sister Josephine and I...
752
00:44:21,125 --> 00:44:22,922
I remember we were very,
very much against him...
753
00:44:22,993 --> 00:44:24,426
going back to the United States.
754
00:44:24,495 --> 00:44:25,587
We tried everything we could...
755
00:44:25,663 --> 00:44:28,188
to make him not go back to
the States, and he went.
756
00:44:28,265 --> 00:44:30,495
And we were so wrong,
because it was for him.
757
00:44:30,567 --> 00:44:32,364
It gave him
a new lease on life...
758
00:44:32,436 --> 00:44:33,926
when he did go back
to the States.
759
00:44:34,004 --> 00:44:36,768
They gave him a visa
of only 10 days...
760
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,967
and we thought,
"Oh, this is disgusting.
761
00:44:39,043 --> 00:44:40,874
"Oh, Daddy, how dare they?"
and everything.
762
00:44:40,944 --> 00:44:42,172
He was thrilled.
763
00:44:42,246 --> 00:44:44,771
He said, "They're still
scared of me".
764
00:44:59,863 --> 00:45:01,455
The closest moments
I ever had with him...
765
00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:03,932
were when I was grown up:
766
00:45:04,001 --> 00:45:05,559
uh, when I was...
767
00:45:05,636 --> 00:45:08,127
when I was back after I'd
started my own career...
768
00:45:08,205 --> 00:45:09,900
towards the end of his life.
769
00:45:22,653 --> 00:45:24,917
Sometimes he'd say,
"I love you... "
770
00:45:24,988 --> 00:45:27,786
and that would just destroy me.
771
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:30,686
Just the "I love you".
772
00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:34,193
He didn't say it often,
but when he did, it was...
773
00:45:35,466 --> 00:45:36,558
He had one side of him...
774
00:45:36,633 --> 00:45:40,364
which was certainly someone
who enjoyed life...
775
00:45:40,437 --> 00:45:41,529
but he had another side...
776
00:45:41,605 --> 00:45:44,836
which was someone
who could get very angry...
777
00:45:44,908 --> 00:45:49,538
and seemed sometimes
quite unreasonable.
778
00:45:49,613 --> 00:45:54,550
He was introverted, because he
never express himself freely.
779
00:45:54,618 --> 00:45:58,213
He was always on the...
kind of reserve...
780
00:45:58,288 --> 00:46:01,189
or kind of self-control.
781
00:46:01,258 --> 00:46:04,284
He was tres anglais:
very British.
782
00:46:05,529 --> 00:46:07,463
He was very, very self-absorbed.
783
00:46:07,531 --> 00:46:08,623
He loved the fire.
784
00:46:08,699 --> 00:46:11,668
He would sit in front of
the fire winter and summer.
785
00:46:11,735 --> 00:46:13,669
And at the end of his days...
786
00:46:13,737 --> 00:46:15,671
my mother used to try
and get him up and get him out:
787
00:46:15,739 --> 00:46:17,001
say, "Come on.
You must get out".
788
00:46:17,074 --> 00:46:19,907
And he'd say,
"It's my only luxury".
789
00:46:46,436 --> 00:46:47,528
During the seventies...
790
00:46:47,604 --> 00:46:50,266
a silence crept over
the Manoir de Ban.
791
00:46:50,340 --> 00:46:52,274
Chaplin was now over 80...
792
00:46:52,342 --> 00:46:55,675
and the man whose youthful charm
had seemed indestructible...
793
00:46:55,746 --> 00:46:58,579
was gradually losing
his vitality.
794
00:46:58,649 --> 00:47:01,709
Doggedly, however,
he continued working.
795
00:47:01,785 --> 00:47:03,412
More melodies emerged...
796
00:47:03,487 --> 00:47:06,650
and the idea for a new film
refused to go away...
797
00:47:06,723 --> 00:47:08,486
but his strength was fading.
798
00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:16,125
Well, death comes to us
very reluctantly...
799
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,326
and, uh...
800
00:47:20,470 --> 00:47:22,768
life is marvelous.
801
00:47:29,746 --> 00:47:30,838
Right to the end...
802
00:47:30,914 --> 00:47:34,179
Chaplin continued working on
a last film... "The Freak".
803
00:47:34,251 --> 00:47:35,809
The manuscript
is now in the care...
804
00:47:35,886 --> 00:47:37,979
of the Chaplin archives
in Montreux.
805
00:47:45,495 --> 00:47:47,087
Despite his advanced age...
806
00:47:47,164 --> 00:47:48,654
Chaplin continued to believe...
807
00:47:48,732 --> 00:47:51,326
that he would one day direct
"The Freak".
808
00:47:51,401 --> 00:47:58,330
We're going to make a picture
called, uh, "The Freak".
809
00:48:00,277 --> 00:48:04,771
That's an angel
with wink... wings.
810
00:48:04,848 --> 00:48:07,146
My sister Vicki left home...
811
00:48:07,217 --> 00:48:08,844
and he'd written this film
for her...
812
00:48:08,919 --> 00:48:10,978
and she really broke his heart
with that.
813
00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:16,651
This was the run-up to the first
shooting sessions.
814
00:48:16,727 --> 00:48:19,218
Chaplin was reliving the years
of long ago...
815
00:48:19,296 --> 00:48:22,459
feeling again the creativeness
and happiness of those times.
816
00:48:22,532 --> 00:48:24,056
Sadly, the film
was never made...
817
00:48:24,134 --> 00:48:26,602
because he was already very old
and easily tired.
818
00:48:49,493 --> 00:48:52,394
In 1977, in Vevey,
for the last time...
819
00:48:52,462 --> 00:48:55,329
Charles Chaplin watched
Rolf Knie as a clown.
820
00:48:55,399 --> 00:48:57,492
When Charlie came the last time
to the circus...
821
00:48:57,567 --> 00:48:58,966
and I crossed the ring...
822
00:48:59,036 --> 00:49:02,403
and from far away
he made like that to me...
823
00:49:02,472 --> 00:49:05,270
and that means it's, uh...
824
00:49:05,342 --> 00:49:07,674
it heated my heart.
825
00:49:07,744 --> 00:49:09,302
During the last weeks
of his life...
826
00:49:09,379 --> 00:49:11,074
he watched quite a lot of TV.
827
00:49:12,816 --> 00:49:15,148
And it was amazing...
828
00:49:15,218 --> 00:49:18,278
'cause you thought
his mind was elsewhere.
829
00:49:18,355 --> 00:49:19,754
A lot was going on
in his head...
830
00:49:19,823 --> 00:49:22,553
but he couldn't
communicate it, so...
831
00:49:24,628 --> 00:49:27,153
Chaplin's last appearance
on film was at home...
832
00:49:27,230 --> 00:49:29,698
during the wine harvest
festival.
833
00:49:29,766 --> 00:49:33,429
These silent pictures are shown
here for the first time.
834
00:49:33,503 --> 00:49:36,438
Charlie Chaplin
back where he began.
835
00:49:36,506 --> 00:49:39,907
No words are needed to remember
this great artist.
836
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:04,594
This is for you, Charlie.
837
00:50:15,045 --> 00:50:19,106
Why is my heart so light?
838
00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:23,482
Why are the stars so bright?
839
00:50:23,553 --> 00:50:27,080
Why is the sky so blue
840
00:50:27,157 --> 00:50:32,618
Since the hour I met you?
841
00:50:32,696 --> 00:50:36,928
Flowers are smiling bright
842
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,232
Smiling for our delight
843
00:50:41,304 --> 00:50:45,297
Smiling so tenderly
844
00:50:45,375 --> 00:50:50,335
For the world, you and me
845
00:51:11,701 --> 00:51:19,574
Love, this is my song
846
00:51:19,643 --> 00:51:20,735
Hello, Dad.
847
00:51:20,811 --> 00:51:23,143
Uh, I know you're up there
somewhere...
848
00:51:23,213 --> 00:51:26,649
and I hope it's good up there.
849
00:51:28,318 --> 00:51:29,444
Miss you and love you.
850
00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:35,151
World cannot be wrong
851
00:51:35,225 --> 00:51:39,491
If in this world
852
00:51:39,563 --> 00:51:42,999
There is you
853
00:51:44,234 --> 00:51:52,164
I care not
what the world may say
854
00:51:52,242 --> 00:51:58,841
Without your love
there is no day
855
00:51:58,915 --> 00:52:01,110
Be well, wherever you are...
856
00:52:01,184 --> 00:52:04,278
and probably see you soon,
if I'm lucky.
857
00:52:04,354 --> 00:52:05,787
This is my song
858
00:52:05,856 --> 00:52:09,155
Bye-bye, Charlie. Thanks for
your magnificent career.
859
00:52:11,795 --> 00:52:13,262
You too, Charlie.
860
00:52:13,330 --> 00:52:15,525
I'll remember your bowler
and your cane...
861
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:16,896
and your little mustache.
862
00:52:19,369 --> 00:52:20,836
Daddy, don't come back.
863
00:52:20,904 --> 00:52:22,496
Stay where you are, please.
864
00:52:22,572 --> 00:52:24,506
This is not a nice world.
865
00:52:24,574 --> 00:52:26,405
You, who were such
an optimist...
866
00:52:26,476 --> 00:52:28,410
and who really thought that
things would work out...
867
00:52:28,478 --> 00:52:31,538
don't come back now, but leave
the Little Tramp here.
868
00:52:31,615 --> 00:52:42,651
This is my song
63502
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