- Actors: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno
- Directors: Joseph Losey
- Writers: Franco Solinas, Masolino D'Amico, Nicholas Mosley
- Producers: Joseph Losey, Josef Shaftel, Norman Priggen
- Language English, Spanish
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Oracle
- VHS Release Date: 6 Jan 2003
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00005224E
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,155 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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1 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
When this movie was shown in Sweden back in 1972, a small and somewhat cranky group of Trotskyists became very upset.
This group, known as Posadists, picketed one of the cinemas showing the movie, and passed out a leaflet. The leaflet said: "Trotsky was a mighty warrior. His pencil was his sword and his eyeglasses were his shield".
And no, I don't know if this is a true story, but I heard it second hand from several sources. The Posadists also believed in UFOs and wanted Brezhnev to nuke America. Or so the grapevine says. The truth may be very different, but since nobody seems to take this movie seriously, I guess I could report this funny rumour...
As for the movie itself, I've only seen it once. And no, it wasn't very good. Trotsky, after all, was a MIGHTY WARRIOR. LOL!
This group, known as Posadists, picketed one of the cinemas showing the movie, and passed out a leaflet. The leaflet said: "Trotsky was a mighty warrior. His pencil was his sword and his eyeglasses were his shield".
And no, I don't know if this is a true story, but I heard it second hand from several sources. The Posadists also believed in UFOs and wanted Brezhnev to nuke America. Or so the grapevine says. The truth may be very different, but since nobody seems to take this movie seriously, I guess I could report this funny rumour...
As for the movie itself, I've only seen it once. And no, it wasn't very good. Trotsky, after all, was a MIGHTY WARRIOR. LOL!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Fine Ensamble Cast makes this Film a Delight to see
7 Jun 2000
Richard Burton and Alain delon star in this tight well acted thriller about the last days of Leon Trotsky, a former Russian delegate being pursued by a calculating professinal hitman looking to make a name for himself. This film was certainly done with charm and wit, and having Delon cast as the trecherous Frank Jackson was brilliant. Alain Delon has the abilty and the skill to convey an unsculpotus assassin. A well made political thriller for it`s time.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Ignore Ignorant Diatribes
12 Aug 2003
The film is a psychological study of Trotsky's murderer, Mercader. I just watched the film and noticed nothing of Burton's goatee coming loose, as alleged by another reviewer. It's a little hard to get beyond Trotsky, the Russian, speaking with a U.K. accent, but that dissipates with time. The film is slightly dated in 1970s-era hip cinematic technique (freeze frame, panning to close up, etc.). But so what? It is not a superb film, but it is not catastrophic.
16 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Joseph Losey makes an anti-political thriller.
30 Aug 2001
In the late 1960s and early 70s, there was a remarkable popularity in political thrillers (e.g. 'Z', 'The Day of the Jackal'), in which normally dull subjects like history, politics, civil service procedurals, etc., were given excitement by their being placed in a suspense context. Losey, typically, makes an anti-thriller political movie - even if you don't know your history, the title is a give away: the key sequences that could have been suspenseful (especially the assassination) are deliberately obscured and fragmented. Losey is more interested in historical representation, the way Trotsky in particular, and Marxism in general, was turned from history into myth, symbol and spectacle - his film abounds in books, speeches, films, murals, parades, photographs, all trying to impose their version. Losey's film thrives on paradox - his man-of-action hero spends the movie virtually imprisoned in his home with his family; the reactionary assassin is the real revolutionary, destroying not only Trotsky and his family, but the very notion of 'identity' from which Trotsky (and all Great Men) derives his power (Losey makes brilliant use of Alain Delon and memories of his famous roles like the hitman in 'Le Samourai'). 'Assassination' is more interesting than entertaining: the pace is deadly slow, the colour muddy, and the performances (Delon excepted) poor. The elaborate opening sequence of a May Day parade in Mexico makes the film a must-see.
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