The Chaplin Machine

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<p>Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin?<br><br> Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy?<br><br> And why did Lenin love circus clowns?<br><br> The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.</p>

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