Which British actor played the role of Leon Trotsky in the 1972 film ‘The Assassination of Trotsky’?
The Assassination of Trotsky The Assassination of Trotsky The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British film, directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley. It starred Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky, as well as Romy Schneider and Alain Delon. A few years after release, "The Assassination of Trotsky" was included as one of the choices in the book "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time". Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky travels from Turkey to France to Norway, before arriving in Mexico in January 1937. The film begins in Mexico City in 1940, during a May Day celebration.
Leon Trotsky this attack. Stalin has finally accomplished the task he attempted unsuccessfully before." Trotsky's house in Coyoacán was preserved in much the same condition as it was on the day of the assassination and is now the Leon Trotsky Museum, run by a board which includes his grandson Esteban Volkov. Trotsky's grave is located in its grounds. The foundation "International Friends of the Leon Trotsky Museum" has been organized to raise funds to further improve the museum. Trotsky was never formally rehabilitated during the rule of the Soviet government, despite the Glasnost-era rehabilitation of most other Old Bolsheviks killed during the