Cinema: The 80 years of the film “The Dictator”, the occasion...

The film The dictator by Charlie Chaplin celebrates his 80th birthday. On this occasion, Chaplin’s World is teaming up with Amnesty International and The Non-Violence Project Foundation for its #LetUsAllUnite campaign: a global human fresco project whose goal is to bring together the citizens of the world around the universal values ​​of movie.

The speech of the film The dictator Even today, takes on its full meaning in the light of current socio-economic and geopolitical challenges, writes the Chaplin museum (Chaplin’s World), located in Corsier-sur-Vevey VD.

Chaplin was one of the few 1930s filmmakers who dared to question the power of Adolf Hitler and his party. The artist will receive death threats, will face economic and political pressures and will finance this film on his own.

First aired in New York on October 15, 1940, The dictator and the values ​​reflected in Chaplin’s final speech in the film still resonate as an inspiration today. Bands such as U2 and Coldplay took over the opening speech of their concerts.

Launched on October 15, the #LetUsAllUnite campaign invites men, women and young people around the world to participate in the reproduction of an excerpt from Charlot’s speech to form a huge human fresco. A tutorial gives the instructions for use: dress as Charlot, position yourself in a specific way to form a letter of the alphabet and photograph yourself.

The letters, once sent to letusallunite.world, will be assembled by the artist NOTsoNOISY Guillaume Reymond to reproduce the sentences of the final speech. On June 20, 2021, this creation will be unveiled on Instagram, and its version printed on a huge banner will be displayed on the perimeter wall of Chaplin’s World.

More than a year of festivities, from October 2020 to the end of 2021, are planned around the globe to celebrate the anniversary of one of Charlie Chaplin’s most iconic films. Ambassadors like Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono, or Oona Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter and Geraldine Chaplin’s daughter, are involved in concerts and exhibitions.

Partner of the Year, The Non-Violence Project Foundation – best known for the sculpture of the knotted gun that can be seen in front of the UN Headquarters in New York and in 30 cities around the world – works for non-violence through the formation of youth.

Created in 1961, Amnesty International is an independent world organization of more than 7 million people who fight to ensure respect for all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and in other related international texts. human rights.