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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0679398806299
Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Lance (Koch)
Manufacturer: Lance (Koch)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lance (Koch)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 05, 2006
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 68021
Studio: Lance (Koch)
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Editorial Review:
Description:
This lost Richard Burton classic chronicles one of the most infamous assassinations of the 20th century - the 1940 murder of Leon Trotsky by Stalin's secret police.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - if stalin had watched this he would have retired to georgia
joseph losey directed richard burton in this bizarre apologia for one of the 20th centurys biggest losers: a man who manages to be held in contempt by both the left and the right. it would be acceptable if anything about the movie were not the height of amateurishness, but thats not the case. trotsky lived with my great grandparents family in new york in the years before the russian revolution; if he was as obnoxious a boarder as this is a film, i hope they overcharged him for the rent!
Rating: - Assasssinate the Director of this Movie
This is a very disappointingly boring movie, lethargically acted in slow motion (despite the stellar cast), with a poor script and no insight into the historical era or the psychology of the potentially fascinating character(s) involved.
Rating:  - Beware of this particular tape
Although other reviewers haven't mentioned it, every VHS version of this film that I have rented has mistakenly switched two of the film reels so that the narrative chronology is out of sequence. Otherwise, this is an interesting Brechtian study of Trotsky and Jacson in which Burton and Delon are as much playing themselves as their ostensible characters. As one critic put it at the time, "Burton playing Churchill, Burton playing Trotsky; what's the difference?" The non-psychologizing alienation effect ... Read More
Rating: - A bombastic (but fun) turkey
This movie has become something of a camp classic, and another in the long, numbing line of perfectly dreadful movies made by Richard Burton. Burton is ridiculously miscast in the role of Trotsky. Not only is he physically wrong for the part (too fat, bloated and drunk), his attempts at interpreting Trotsky's character are ludicrous and extraordinarily pitiful. The make-up is another irritating element: the pathetic stick-on goatee Burton wears literally comes close to falling off in several scenes, which ... Read More
Rating: - Ignore Ignorant Diatribes
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.
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