PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bláhová, Jindřiška
TI  - No Place for Peace-Mongers. Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and Czechoslovak Communist Propaganda
DP  - 2012 Mar 1
TA  - Iluminace
PG  - 69--86
VI  - 24
IP  - 1
IS  - 0862397X
AB  - This thematic study shows how Charlie Chaplin's iconic personality and work carried certain characteristics that were used by the system in post-war Czechoslovakia for ideological propaganda. As a humanist, Chaplin was perceived as a potentially subversive figure in the inhuman environment of Hollywood, and was therefore valued as a progressive individualist by the communist regime. His 1947 film Mensieur Verdoux was very positively reviewed in the Czechoslovak press of the time.