Modern Times with Frank Strobel and the Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin

Charlie, the Tramp, gets caught up in the machinery of industrial production. He is fed, tortured, locked up, released. He disappears into the gutter, accidentally takes drugs, falls in love with a woman under guardianship. In the end, the two set off towards the horizon – leaving modern times behind them. Mechanisation, automation, rationalisation in 1938; tragic, comic, critical, graceful, artistic, pantomimic. Contemporary! And densely and multifacetedly composed – by Charles Chaplin himself! The all-round artist was a deeply serious man, of whom Dmitri Shostakovich always spoke with the utmost respect. The film score of ‘Modern Times’ supports the story with messages of its own. It is not only the dance numbers in the café that reveal the spirit of Chaplin the composer. For the first time, the Tramp’s voice can also be heard as he performs the song ‘Titina’.

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• 13 Mar 27 Modern Times with Frank Strobel at Berlin 🇩🇪 show

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