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Léon Trotsky - Un homme à abattre

Léon Trotsky - Un homme à abattre

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 8, 2022

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

80%

Original Title

Léon Trotsky - Un homme à abattre

Production Companies

CPB Films, RTBF, LCP - Assemblée nationale, ARTE, ZDF

Director

Marie Brunet-Debaines

Description

On August 21, 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City, after eleven years of exile. The killer, Ramon Mercader, a young Spanish communist, was a character straight out of a spy movie. He was recruited in 1937 by Stalin's secret service when the latter decided to eliminate Trotsky, that tireless opponent. Through the epic story of Trotsky's last years in exile in Mexico, enriched with flashbacks to his political past, this film, a true historical thriller, offers a cross-narrative between Trotsky's life in exile and the setting up, at the same time, of "Operation Duck", the code name for his assassination.