The Assassination of Trotsky

feature film, 1972

DIRECTED BY: Joseph Losey

The Assassination of Trotsky

CAST:
Richard Burton (Leon Trocki),
Alain Delon (Frank Jackson),
Romy Schneider (Gita Samuels),
Valentina Cortese (Natalia Sedova Trocki),
Enrico Maria Salerno (Salazar)

SCRIPT:
Masolino D'Amico,
Nicholas Mosley,
Franco Solinas

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Pasqualino De Santis

Synopsis:
In 1929, Leon Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union. Eleven years later he finds himself in Mexico. This film shows the last few months of his life, from May to August 1940 when Frank Jackson assassinated him. We follow Jackson’s slow infiltration into Trotsky’s group of friends and collaborators.

color, 35 mm, 95min