Chaplin Today: 'Monsieur Verdoux' (2003)
Genre : TV Movie, Documentary
Runtime : 26M
Director : Bernard Eisenschitz
Synopsis
A short documentary in the Chaplin Today series about Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux." Includes an interview with Claude Chabrol, whose 1963 film "Landru" concerns the same serial killer that inspired Chaplin's film.
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