Das Mädchen und der Mörder - Die Ermordung Trotzkis

Originaltitel: The Assassination of Trotsky

1972
16
1 Std. 43 Min.

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2047

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Richard Burton, Alain Delon, and Romy Schneider in Das Mädchen und der Mörder - Die Ermordung Trotzkis (1972)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAfter Stalin exiles Trotsky to Mexico in 1940, he sends assassin Frank Jacson to infiltrate Trotsky's circle and assassinate him, posing as a young communist to gain access to Trotsky's home... Alles lesenAfter Stalin exiles Trotsky to Mexico in 1940, he sends assassin Frank Jacson to infiltrate Trotsky's circle and assassinate him, posing as a young communist to gain access to Trotsky's home.After Stalin exiles Trotsky to Mexico in 1940, he sends assassin Frank Jacson to infiltrate Trotsky's circle and assassinate him, posing as a young communist to gain access to Trotsky's home.

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5,7/10

2047

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Wissenswertes
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 Brandung (1968) did trust Losey enough to take the part, even though he was shown the same script.

Patzer
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.

Zitate
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!

Alternative Versionen
In Spain it wasn't released until August 1977, two years after Francisco Franco's death. It was released only in English with Spanish subtitles. It wasn't dubbed in Castilian Spanish until 1983, when the film was released on VHS.

Verbindungen
Featured in Romy & Alain: Die ewigen Verlobten (2022)

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Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

5/10

Not terrible by any means

This film has a reputation as a terrible film which I find greatly undeserved. It is average in the sense there are better films and there are worse. I found the film to be fairly static. The story is slow moving and the character of the assassin is never really delineated. Alain Delon is the true lead of the film, with Burton's Trotsky more a secondary character. I thought Burton did a fine job as Trotsky, the only think slightly bothering me is that Burton was physically imposing and that's not how I picture Trotsky. I picture him as more of a bookish intellectual of less than physically imposing attributes. (I do not know the actual physical attributes of Trotsky.)

In any case, Romy Schneider is very lovely and sexy and the camera also treats Delon well, even if we do not have any clear insight to his motivation. In the end, I'm not sure what the purpose of this film was and that is its greatest failure. But, while the film did not succeed, there is nothing memorably bad about it. So my rating falls plum in the middle.