'The boy': this is how the legend of Charles Chaplin was born

He was the greatest comedian, he had become the king of silent movies.

And First National Pictures, the production company, put at your disposal everything you needed ... Or so you thought.

In 1919 the moment came when Charles Chaplin, at 30, directed his first feature film.

And the Londoner did not hesitate: the script would be inspired by his childhood, in his days in the Kensington neighborhood, in his flight from the police, when his mother was admitted to an asylum and the police threatened to put him in an orphanage (s ...

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