The Assassination of Trotsky

The Assassination of Trotsky

1972 · 103 min · EN · 5.3 (33 votes)
Dir. Joseph Losey · Starring Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Duilio Del Prete, Enrico Maria Salerno · Music Egisto Macchi

For one moment, they hold history in their hands. With one terrible blow, they make it.

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A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

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A chilling, somber descent into the final days of a revolutionary. The air is thick with paranoia and the grim inevitability of political violence. It feels like watching history's cold, calculated gears turn towards an unavoidable, tragic end.

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