अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंAfter Stalin exiles Trotsky to Mexico in 1940, he sends assassin Frank Jacson to infiltrate Trotsky's circle and assassinate him, posing as a young communist to gain access to Trotsky's home... सभी पढ़ेंAfter Stalin exiles Trotsky to Mexico in 1940, he sends assassin Frank Jacson to infiltrate Trotsky's circle and assassinate him, posing as a young communist to gain access to Trotsky's home.After Stalin exiles Trotsky to Mexico in 1940, he sends assassin Frank Jacson to infiltrate Trotsky's circle and assassinate him, posing as a young communist to gain access to Trotsky's home.
- निर्देशक
- लेखक
- स्टार
- Marguerite Rosmer
- (as Simone Valere)
- Lou
- (as Hunt Powers)
- Jim
- (as Mike Forrest)
- Sam
- (as Gianni Loffredo)
फ़ीचर्ड समीक्षाएं
What is good about the film? Richard Burton's ability to convey the charisma of Trotsky, the combination of visionary and pragmatic politician who had the misfortune to be outmaneuvered by two equally powerful men with far fewer scruples, Lenin and Stalin. Alain Delon's portrayal of the ice-cold assassin, motivated not by ideology nor even by money, nor in fact any discernible force other than his own profound emptiness. One of Delon's best roles ever.
The cinematography is extremely powerful. As I say, 30 years later, the images are clear in my mind.
Time to rehabilitate this film, folks. There's a lot of trash out there with higher ratings than this 4.6, so if you've seen it, add your vote. If you haven't, try to see it, and vote what you think it's merit is.
The setting is Mexico in 1940. Trotsky goes about his last days dictating his memoirs, talking to his wife, escaping assassination attempts by Stalin's agents (why--the viewer is only told Trotsky's ideas would mean the end of Stalin's regime), asking when the rabbit food for his rabbits will be delivered, and other such events. A paid assassin figures in this, but lacks the nerve to actually do his job. He takes more than two attempts. The film finally ends with the title event, which is staged like something out of a Hammer film, and has everyone screaming and bellowing.
Richard Burton as Trotsky does a lot of pontificating and dictating, but never shows what made Trotsky tick. Alan Delon as the assassin is expressionless and mostly silent until the end; then he and Burton seem in a contest to see who can bellow loudest (a tie) and longest (Delon). Cortese fades into the background.
There is a ten minute bullfighting scene that has no purpose. There are murals by Diego Rivera featured in the film (I know because they were mentioned in the credits). There is a horrid atonal score by Egisto Macchi. I'd recommend you pass on this one.
First, don't expect a biopic of Leon Trotsky, the stormy petrel of revolution. The title describes the assassination of Trotsky. He's a professorial sort, exiled to Mexico City after Stalin took over and betrayed Lenin's principles by playing footsies with Wall Street. It often happens with extremist ideologies that they split up, because everyone wants to be purer than the next guy. At that, Trotsky was lucky to get out alive. Stalin had ANYONE who represented a threat to his power murdered. Stalin went about, doing bad.
It's an unpleasant movie. We have to sit through a bullfight and learn why movies usually don't show us the final coup, after which the bull drags himself around vomiting blood until he flops down, while the crowd cheers. I know -- the bravery and grace of the matador and all that, but why don't they just let the bull go? Sometimes there is a thin line between beauty and baseness. I understand why the scene was included. The matador does to the bull what Alan Resnais does to Burton, more or less. And instead of dying a neat Hollywood death, Burton staggers up from his chair, a hole in his skull, stares at Resnais and shrieks bloody murder.
There are long periods in which we watch Mexicans doing nothing in particular. And the scenes can be confusing. It's not always easy to tell what's going on. The musical score appears to have been made by a thousand chirping electronic crickets.
Lots of talent and momentous intentions gone awry.
My rate 8/10
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाJoseph Losey originally offered the part of Leon Trotsky to Dirk Bogarde, with whom he had made five other films. Losey admitted that the script was terrible, but told Bogarde that it would be revised. Bogarde turned the role down, embittering Losey, who felt that Bogarde didn't trust him. Richard Burton, who had worked with Losey on Boom (1968) did trust Losey enough to take the part, even though he was shown the same script.
- गूफ़A character passes a wall with a graffiti-image of Woody Woodpecker. The first appearance of Woody Woodpecker was in the cartoon "Knock Knock" which was released 25th of November 1940, two months after Trotski was assassinated.
- भाव
Leon Trotsky: It's hard living with an old revolutionary. You should have been with us when we stormed the Winter Palace! With Lenin in Moscow in the early days! What happiness to be alive - to be fighting then!
- इसके अलावा अन्य वर्जनIn Spain it wasn't released until August 1977, two years after Francisco Franco's death. It was released only in English with Spanish subtitles. It wasn't dubbed in Castilian Spanish until 1983, when the film was released on VHS.
- कनेक्शनFeatured in Romy et Alain, les éternels fiancés (2022)
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बॉक्स ऑफ़िस
- बजट
- $25,00,000(अनुमानित)
- चलने की अवधि
- 1 घं 43 मि(103 min)
- पक्ष अनुपात
- 1.66 : 1