The Assassination of Trotsky
Director: Joseph Losey
Genre: Political drama, Biopic [feature], Drama, Thriller, Biographical film, Historical fiction
Year: 1972
Country: United Kingdom, France, Italy
Language: English Language, Spanish Language
Starring: Richard Burton, Valentina Cortese, Alain Delon, Jean Desailly, Romy Schneider, Enrico Maria Salerno, Luigi Vannucchi
The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British film directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley. It starred Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky, as well as Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.
Trotsky had been forced to leave the Soviet Union in 1929. It is now 1940 and he is living in Mexico. He has not escaped the attention of the current ruler of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, who sends out an assassin named Frank Jackson. The killer decides to infiltrate Trotsky's house by befriending one of the young communists in Trotsky's circle.
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