The Assassination of Trotsky
"For one moment, they hold history in their hands. With one terrible blow, they make it."
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Cast
Richard Burton
Leon Trotsky
Alain Delon
Frank Jackson
Romy Schneider
Gita Samuels
Valentina Cortese
Natalia Trotsky
Duilio Del Prete
Felipe
Enrico Maria Salerno
Salazar
Luigi Vannucchi
Ruiz
Jean Desailly
Alfred Rosmer
Simone Valère
Marguerite Rosmer
Peter Chatel
Otto
Giorgio Albertazzi
Carlos Miranda
Sheldon Harte
Claudio Brook
Roberto (uncredited)
Crew
Joseph Losey
Director
Nicholas Mosley
Author
Pasqualino De Santis
Director of Photography
Egisto Macchi
Original Music Composer
Peter T. Davies
Sound Recordist
Masolino D'Amico
Screenplay
Franco Solinas
Screenplay
Norman Priggen
Producer
Joseph Losey
Executive Producer
Josef Shaftel
Executive Producer
Reginald Beck
Editor
Arrigo Equini
Art Direction
Richard Macdonald
Production Design
Annalisa Nasalli-Rocca
Costume Design