THE GOLD RUSH © Roy Export Company Ltd
The Gold Rush: Charlie Chaplin’s Masterpiece Celebrates 100 Years!
Released in June of 1925, The Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin celebrates its 100th birthday. In honor of the occasion, Cannes Classics is showcasing this film – often praised as one of the greatest in film history – thanks to a new restored version.
Exactly 100 years ago, Chaplin dreamed up the idea for this film from a photograph of the Klondike Gold Rush (Canada), in 1896. This same year and in this same context, Chaplin released The Gold Rush, that follows a poor lone prospector (The Tramp). Trapped in a snow blizzard, the prospector takes refuge in an isolated cabin which he must share with a wanted criminal and another gold prospector, while hunger looms over them. Later in town, the little fellow falls in love with a dance-hall girl, who makes his life difficult.
This film features certain emblematic scenes of Chaplin’s filmmaking, such as the shoe-eating scene and the “dinner roll dance”. While The Gold Rush was released as a silent film at the time, a second version exists today, one that is shorter with a soundtrack that the filmmaker himself released in 1942.
A presentation by Roy Export SAS with the support of mk2. 4K restoration carried out by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, using elements created by Photoplay Productions and from archival material generously provided by the BFI National Archive, Blackhawk Films, the Lobster Films Collection, Das Bundesarchiv, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the George Eastman Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Worldwide re-release organized by mk2 Films on June 26, 2025.
Screening in the presence of Arnold Lozano, Director of Roy Export SAS.