The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Until Apr 27, 2008

Mon to Sun from 10am to 8pm, Sat from 10am to 10pm

at CaixaForum Barcelona (Av. Marquès de Comillas, 6-8) Free entrance

This is the first Chaplin’s exhibition in Spain with 300 photos, films fragments and posters of this comedy actor.

Chaplin became one of the most famous actors, a notable director and musician in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era. He is considered one of the finest mimes and clowns ever caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field.

He acted in, directed, scripted, produced, and eventually scored his own films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 65 years, from the Victorian stage and music hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, almost until his death at the age of eighty-eight.

His principal character was “The Tramp” (known as “Charlot” in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Turkey, and as “Carlitos” in Brazil). “The Tramp” is a vagrant with the refined manners and dignity of a gentleman. The character wears a tight coat, oversized trousers and shoes, and a derby; carries a bamboo cane; and has a signature toothbrush mustache.