RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Bláhová, Jindřiška
T1 No Place for Peace-Mongers. Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and Czechoslovak Communist Propaganda
JF Iluminace
YR 2012
VO 24
IS 1
SP 69
OP 86
UL https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201201-0005.php
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.