The Assassination of Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Frank Jackson

Gita Samuels

Natalia Sedowa Trotsky

Salazar

Ruiz

Alfred Rosmer

Marguerite Rosmer

Felipe

Otto

Lou (as Hunt Powers)

Jim (as Mike Forrest)

Sheldon Harte

Sam (as Gianni Loffredo)

Pedro

Seva Trotsky - Trotsky's nephew

Himself (in picture)

Himself (in picture)

Roberto (uncredited)

One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.

Joseph Losey originally offered the part of Leon Trotsky to Dirk Bogarde, with whom he had made five other films. Losey admitted that the script was terrible, but told Bogarde that it would be revised. Bogarde turned the role down, embittering Losey, who felt that Bogarde didn't trust him. Richard Burton, who had worked with Losey on Boom! (1968) did trust Losey enough to take the part, even though he was shown the same script.

A character passes a wall with a graffiti-image of Woody Woodpecker. The first appearance of Woody Woodpecker was in the cartoon "Knock Knock" which was released 25th of November 1940, two months after Trotski was assassinated.

Leon Trotsky: It's hard living with an old revolutionary. You should have been with us when we stormed the Winter Palace! With Lenin in Moscow in the early days! What happiness to be alive- to be fighting then!

Gita Samuels: You're in a fine state! God, has someone cut your tongue off? Why do you get like this? Is it the altitude you're in- or is it something you've eaten?