Directed by:
Joseph LoseyScreenplay:
Nicholas MosleyCinematography:
Pasqualino De SantisComposer:
Egisto MacchiCast:
Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno, Duilio Del Prete, Jean Desailly, Simone Valère, Claudio Brook (more)Plots(1)
One of the most infamous assassinations of the 20th Century was the 1940 murder of Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, by the long and implacable arm of Stalin's secret police. An event that was later seen as one of the first government sponsored exercises of raw, bloody terrorism, this was the event that sealed the fate of Soviet Russia and guaranteed that it would be a Stalinist repressive dictatorship and not the Communism that Lenin dreamed would govern the USSR. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Richard Burton
UK
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Alain Delon
France
Best movies:
Two Men in Town (1973)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Romy Schneider
German Empire
Best movies:
Die schöne Lügnerin (1959)
The Old Gun (1975)
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Valentina Cortese
Italy
Best movies:
Day for Night (1973)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
Enrico Maria Salerno
Italy
Best movies:
Piazza di Spagna (1993) (series)
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Escape by Night (1960)
Duilio Del Prete
Italy
Best movies:
My Friends (1975)
Bankers Also Have Souls (1982)
Massacre in Rome (1973)
Jean Desailly
France
Best movies:
The Professional (1981)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
The Soft Skin (1964)
Simone Valère
France
Best movies:
Beauty of the Devil (1950)
La Nuit est mon royaume (1951)
Germinal (1963)
Claudio Brook
Mexico
Best movies:
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Viridiana (1961)
Jack Betts
USA
Best movies:
Falling Down (1993)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
8MM (1999)
Joshua Sinclair
USA
Best movies:
The Big Racket (1976)
Hitchhike: Last House on the Left (1977)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Giorgio Albertazzi
Italy
Best movies:
The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
Le Notti Bianche (1957)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Luigi Vannucchi
Italy
Best movies:
The Red Tent (1969)
I giorni della violenza (1967)
Johnny Yuma (1966)
Peter Chatel
German Empire
Best movies:
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Bruno Boschetti
Best movies:
The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (1971) (series)
All the Way Trinity (1972)
Devil in the Brain (1972)
Michael Forest
USA
Best movies:
Cast Away (2000)
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003)