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词条 The Assassination of Trotsky
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  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Production

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}{{Infobox film
| name = The Assassination of Trotsky
| image = The Assassination of Trotsky.jpg
| caption =
| director = Joseph Losey
| producer = Norman Priggen
Josef Shaftel (executive producer)
| writer = Nicholas Mosley
| starring = Richard Burton
Alain Delon
Romy Schneider
Valentina Cortese
Jean Desailly
| music = Egisto Macchi
| cinematography = Pasqualino De Santis
| editing = Reginald Beck
| studio = Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
Compagnia Internazionale Alessandra Cinematografica
Cinétel
| distributor = Cinerama Releasing Corporation
| released = 20 April 1972
| runtime = 103 minutes
| awards =
| country = Italy
France
United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = $2.5 million
|gross = 561,109 admissions (France)[1]
}}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.[2]

Plot

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. Trotsky has not escaped the attention of the Soviet dictator of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, who sends out an assassin named Frank Jacson. The killer decides to infiltrate Trotsky's house by befriending one of the young communists in Trotsky's circle.

Cast

  • Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky
  • Alain Delon as Frank Jacson
  • Romy Schneider as Gita Samuels
  • Valentina Cortese as Natalia Sedowa Trotsky
  • Luigi Vannucchi as Ruiz
  • Jean Desailly as Alfred Rosmer
  • Simone Valère as Marguerite Rosmer
  • Duilio Del Prete as Felipe
  • Jack Betts as Lou (as Hunt Powers)
  • Michael Forest as Jim
  • Claudio Brook as Roberto
  • Joshua Sinclair as Sam
  • Giorgio Albertazzi as Commissioner

Production

In 1965, Josef Shaftel optioned the novel The Great Prince Died by Bernard Wolfe. The film was a co-production between the French Valoria Company and Dino De Laurentiis. It was originally to be shot in England,[3] but was eventually filmed in Mexico. The movie used Isaac Don Levine's book The Mind of an Assassin as a source.[4]

References

1. ^Box office information for film at Box Office Story
2. ^{{cite book |last1=Medved |first1=Harry |last2=Dreyfuss |first2=Randy |date=1978 |title=The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (And How They Got That Way) |url= |location= |publisher=Popular Library |page=31 |isbn=0-445-04139-0 |accessdate= }}
3. ^Joseph Losey Looks at Trotsky: Joseph LoseyBy A. H. WEILER. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 27 June 1971: D17.
4. ^Is It Worth a Trip to See?: PersonalitiesFrom staff reports and news dispatches. The Washington Post, Times Herald (1959-1973) [Washington, D.C] 3 September 1971: B3.

External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0068226|title=The Assassination of Trotsky}}
  • [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0DE1DD1631E63BBC4C52DFB6678389669EDE Original New York Times Review]
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