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Season 1 • Episode 486: Relics: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 486: Relics: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin

April 3, 1994

In 1978 Charlie Chaplin 's coffin was stolen from his grave in Vevey, Switzerland, and a large ransom was demanded of his widow Oona. This fictional film inspired by those events follows the east European characters responsible. A Screen Two/Arena collaboration, it is written and directed by award-winning documentary film-maker Paul Pawlikowski.

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