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  1. The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British historical drama film, directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley. It stars Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky, as well as Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.

  2. Mar 30, 1972 · The Assassination of Trotsky: Directed by Joseph Losey. With Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese. After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940.

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    • Joseph Losey
    • 1972-03-30
  3. The exiled communist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked by a Soviet agent in Coyoacán, Mexico, on August 20, 1940, and died of his injuries the following day. Trotsky, one of the chief architects of the Russian Revolution, had at one time been regarded as the most likely successor to Lenin as the leader of the U.S.S.R.

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  4. Jul 14, 2012 · The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) Starring Richard Burton. After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with the...

  5. Aug 21, 2015 · In the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, a group of 20 gunmen stormed Trotsky’s walled compound to carry out the sentence. They sprayed the house with bullets but missed their target...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Leon_TrotskyLeon Trotsky - Wikipedia

    In 1936, Trotsky was sentenced to death in absentia at the first of the Moscow show trials, and in 1940, was assassinated at his home in Mexico City by Stalinist agent Ramón Mercader . Written out of Soviet history under Stalin, Trotsky was one of the few of his rivals who was never politically rehabilitated by later leaders.

  7. Valentina Cortese. Actor. Enrico Maria Salerno. Actor. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. A Stalinist assassin (Alain Delon) tracks exiled revolutionary...

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