Charlie Chaplin in Switzerland
Swiss filmmaker charts Chaplin's final years

Julie worked as a radio reporter for BBC and independent radio all over the UK before joining swissinfo.ch's predecessor, Swiss Radio International, as a producer. After attending film school, Julie worked as an independent filmmaker before coming to swissinfo.ch in 2001.
Following his exile from the United States in 1952, comic actor Charlie Chaplin made his home in Switzerland, on the lake of Geneva. In his documentary “Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years”, Swiss filmmakers Beat Hirt and Felice Zenoni use previously unreleased archive footage and intimate interviews with his friends and family to chart Chaplin’s time in Switzerland. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch, Beat Hirt and Felice Zenoni. Archive 2002)
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