The Boot Cake

Name: The Boot Cake
Director: Kathryn Millard
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-05-01
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Ashok Aswani

It's Charlie Chaplin's birthday party in Adipur, India

2008 · 74 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

Charlie Chaplin is a saint to earthquake survivors in a small desert town in India and they are throwing him a birthday party. Australian filmmaker Kathryn Millard is taking the cake - a chocolate truffle sponge shaped like the Tramp's boot.

Directed by Kathryn Millard · Written by Kathryn Millard

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