As Viktoria Chaplin was looking through her father Charlie’s personal positions, she found a unique document. 16mm filmstrip that was shot by her uncle Sydney Chaplin and documented her father Charlie during the time of shooting The Great Dictator (1940). The unusual film, shot in color in amateur camera highlights Chaplin’s ambitious projects: his revenge on the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. With his satirical genius, he not only exposed the “Führer” to ridicule, but more than that, he revealed the brutal nature of Nazism. This documentary gives unlimited access to Chaplin’s cinematic and literary estate, and...
This documentary deals with the subject of humor as a survival mechanism in the Holocaust. The subject is researched using the testimonies of a number of survivors.
Documentary film about the life of the Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov. Hitler gave a special order to kill him, Stalin killed his brother and kept him guessing about his own fate. This man is a prominent Soviet cartoonist and propaganda, legendary for his political caricatures, which helped to stoke morale among Russian troops during World War II, and who was targeting American capitalism during the Cold War era. He produced more than 70 000 drawings during 108 years of his life.