L'assassinio di Trotsky
UK / Italy / France,
1972, 103 min
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)
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