Kuningas New Yorkissa - A King in New York (Chaplin)
A King in New York (Chaplin)
Kuningas New Yorkissa
- Release year
- 1957
- Texts
- Finnish, ruotsi
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age limit
- 15
- Language
- englanti
Blu-ray + DVD
Delivery in 1-2 weeks
- Helsinki 3
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Description
The eternal clown, Charlie Chaplin believed that the best solution to any problem was to poke fun at it. Thus, as fascism was the target of “The Great Dictator,” the ills he saw in 1950s society were the targets at which he shot his satirical arrows in “A King in New York” (1957). The story is about an overthrown monarch who arrives in New York to find that his prime minister has absconded with all his funds. Running up massive bills in his hotel, he is persuaded to make television commercials. Meanwhile, the monarch meets a precocious lad who is being harassed by government agents to betray his parents. Frustrated by a society that pays enormous sums of money to buffoons and hucksters while undermining its own constitution is eventually too much for the monarch, and he leaves the country, but not before he passes on to the young boy the hope for a better future.
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Blu-ray + DVD
The eternal clown, Charlie Chaplin believed that the best solution to any problem was to poke fun at it. Thus, as fascism was the target of “The Great Dictator,” the ills he saw in 1950s society were the targets at which he shot his satirical arrows in “A King in New York” (1957). The story is about an overthrown monarch who arrives in New York to find that his prime minister has absconded with all his funds. Running up massive bills in his hotel, he is persuaded to make television commercials. Meanwhile, the monarch meets a precocious lad who is being harassed by government agents to betray his parents. Frustrated by a society that pays enormous sums of money to buffoons and hucksters while undermining its own constitution is eventually too much for the monarch, and he leaves the country, but not before he passes on to the young boy the hope for a better future.