Giunti Odeon presents one of Charlie Chaplin's greatest masterpieces and one of the greatest films in the history of cinema, marking the 100th anniversary of its release in cinemas around the world (including the Odeon cinema in Florence!): The Gold Rush, which will be screened in a stunning new 4K restored version (with original English captions and Italian subtitles).

The Tramp, now a lonely prospector, ventures into Alaska during the gold rush. Nature is hostile, humanity is greedy, and the smile of love seems denied. 'A hilarious film, and one of relentless harshness' (Peter von Bagh). But in a hut made of nailed-together planks and draughts of ice (ninety years later, Tarantino would reference it in The Hateful Eight), the little prospector cooks a shoe and eats it with gusto; he spears two sandwiches with forks and creates, through pure magic, the most prodigious dance scene in the history of cinema; he seeks and perhaps finally finds balance on the edge of the abyss: because Charlie Chaplin ‘will always continue to believe in the potential of the human race’ (Goffredo Fofi). 

A masterpiece of absolute comedy and a great tale of loneliness, The Gold Rush is “the” film for which Chaplin would have liked to be remembered. In reality, he shares that fate with many others. But certainly the choice to take the Tramp to the roots (or to the precipice) of American mythology, to set his solitary figure against the snowy backdrop of the birth of a nation, makes it a work of unsurpassed, dizzying intensity.

The film is presented in an edition accompanied by the extraordinary musical score that Chaplin created, in collaboration with Max Terr, for the 1942 re-release. For the first time, The Gold Rush is thus restored to the highest standard of its visual and musical beauty.