"The assassination of Trotsky"
In the Revolution there compulsion, only circumstantial.
Revolution occurs only when there is no other way out.
CID ADE OF MEXICO, 1940
LABOR DAY
Jacques?
Where you going?
The bank.
Today is Labor Day.
Why? You closed all banks?
I go to the office.
Jacques, went to his office, the other day ...
You wasn't there.
I mean, the address gave me wasn't there.
What a girl like you would in an office?
-Bourgeois. -Communist.
Attention, follow the other column.
Attention, a moment!
Freeze! One moment!
MEXICO ONE FREE Metalworkers'
VIVA MEXICO!
Long live Trotsky!
Friends workers ...
the cause of the proletariat has won international force.
UN workers arise in every corner ...
for justice workers ...
not made by capitalists.
Bravo.
They murdered our brothers, workers in the world.
Mexican Workers, unite to fight against.
The Universid ADE OF MEXICO IS against Trotsky
ALLIED ENEMIES OF THE CLASS D INTERNATIONAL WORKING
Long live Trotsky!
A traitor, murderer! Enemy of the People!
Leon Davidovich Trotsky ...
traitor State Workers!
No! Let me out!
The uprising, in this situation, was unprecedented.
Due to my fight irreconcilable ...
against domestic policy the Kremlin.
My statements, from the past ...
are reproduced in all the world ...
dissatisfaction within the USSR is growing.
So Stalin ordered its agents ...
to killing me, as quickly as possible.
Continue. Yes, sir.
Today, when the true work of the state was betrayed.
When the Union of Soviet USSR did ...
common cause with imperialist, fascist ...
and bureaucrats world ...
and when the orders one man, Joseph Stalin ...
And by means his blood thirsty agents.
Even here in Mexico City ...
The vultures are gathered. the Cancer of the counter-revolution.
writing in exile.
victory after victory, in the fight against Stalin.
Sieva! Sieva!
Stalin no longer attacks the ideas of his enemies ...
but want to eliminate them.
See, Sieve, the little ones?
Life is worth struggle.
Stalin do not strikes at his enemies ideas..
but want to eliminate them.
Do you what to do here? Not bored?
It's hard living with an old revolutionary.
You should be with us when storm the Winter Palace ...
And with Lenin in Moscow, early days.
What would happen if he were alive ...
and fighting against them.
I got've done with a young man in those days.
Lev Davidovich?
-Slept this afternoon? -No.
You worked too hard. you must come to bed early tonight.
Your old war horse, you want him in bed, do you?
And do not take the many pills today.
Pills, pills. Do not worry.
Natasha go inside. I'll see you in a minuate.
Sheldon?
Yes, comrade Trotsky?
-Sheldon? Yes?
How long you have been with me, two months?
I depend upon the loyalty. Four children murdered ...
my son poisoned, my daughter do the suicide ...
her husband in Siberia ...
And grand grandson left, millions dead in Russia.
The dictatorship by one man. I have to fight.
All around the world, lies. My followers silenced.
The truth, Sheldon, can not silence that.
-How is your family? "fine.
I have good friends in New York ...
watching, on the sidelines.
They think we are helpless here.
Far from Europe, in Mexico, under protection.
Stalin is furios, why still they chase us?
They know we are right.
One day, Sheldon, you and I, or you at least ...
see, rising from the ashes ...
the ashes a great betrayal.
The betrayal of Marx principles
New Labor workers state. The Fourth International.
Today, as poor, tomorrow, so powerful.
And we will win, Sheldon.
We will win!
The weapons, look!
One, two, three, four!
PROHIBITED PARKING
Like this paintings?
The painter is Man of action. A great painter.
What kind of painter be a man of action?
What man of action would have imagination?
What do you think?
Here has a wonderful control of violence ...
color and font. Do not you think?
This operation may not work. There are not professionals.
It doesn't matter.
Some objective will have been achieved, some fronts like painting.
Workers, citizens were organize in this country ...
They have shown their hostility to Trotksy.
That will still be a serious buisness.
You do not talk.
What goes on behind these quiet ...
blue eyes?
-You want me to talk? yeah sure the girl?
Yes
She goes to the house? -Yes.
Have you ever been there? outside
You not answered my question.
What was that?
You want me to die? -No.
We all want stay alive.
The old keeps me busy.
You know about dreams?
What are not in fun state
God, has someone cut your tounge out?
Why do not like this?
It's the altitude?
Is It something do you to eat?
I do not think you have see Trotksy.
What do you call this? Import and export?
I do not think why you should worry about the work.
I know that you are Belgian. Monsieur Jacques Monard.
Mr. Frank Jacson.
But the war is a capitalist game ...
-my little capitalist. -I am not Belgian.
I am Canadian.
I do not care who you are.
Look Mediterranean to me. One of those lovely dark men.
What?
Why do you spell Jacson, without a "k" in your passport?
-Do you want to talk? -I want.
About what?
Go to rape me?
Good morning.
Read the City Hall article this morning in the newspapers .
You do not know how they got in?
No.
-They let them go. "It is not possible.
-By one of your men. Who?
It was seem by the Police.
Then why did'nt they stop them?
-Your man, Sheldon Hart ... -No.
He went with them. "It is not possible.
Then what is your theory?
Isn't it possible ...? -How ...
If I may be allowed continue, without interruption ...
My wife Natasha and I were in the bed room ...
when we heard the sound firing.
Immediately we threw ourselves under the bed.
Natasha tried to protect me with her body.
I made a lie down. which is That's saved us.
You threw themselves down? beside-beside.
But there were hundreds of bullets!
Are you Suggesting I am immortal Colonel?
I am suggesting you was not in the room.
You was warned.
By the way you achieved a certain sympathy.
And how do i achieve my own death?
What aim could i possibly can achieved, I venturing ...
in an act so dangerous? Why? what for?
I would have risk my own fate, the fate of my family ...
my political reputation.
The reputation of people whom I serve.
What did I stand to gain?
Luck was on the side of justice. The intruders were incompetent.
Then why didn't one of your guards not fire back?
They are Americans.
Perhaps, they have too much respect for police uniforms.
You trust them? completly.
In my profession, you learn to trust, Colonel.
-I love that boy. -He may be dead.
He w'not cover up. Anything else but this.
There are murders in the city, saboteurs.
You know them. Arrest them.
You have a theory who was responsible?
I must Certainly do.
Joseph Stalin.
Come on.
Of the 12 apostles, only Judas was a traitor, but ...
if he had a quiet power ...
He already left, would have been the traitor.
How I love you, Natasha.
My only one, faithfull, one my eternal ...
One my love, my victum.
You always carrying me on your shoulders ...
as you carrying me throughout our lives.
You can be alone now.
Most of our friends will be arrested.
But I will not arrest you, you are a businessman.
-You will survive. -Where will you be?
-I have had my falure. -It was not yours.
It might have been a success, such a dialectical.
Now a days there is a popular feeling against Trotsky.
Not just one madman with a gun.
-What will happen? When?
To you?
I'm not important. I be looked after.
And if the next attemp is a success ...
It even be looked after very well.
It is a peculiar situation.
If the Soviet Union goes, everything goes.
Be overturned.
Stalin is realistic.
If the Soviet Union win Stalin has to the real issue.
This can only be done by some sacrifice of all principles.
Trotsky is an idealist.
He dreams of the perfect International Workers State.
We all do
But we are up again gangisters , armies!
Trotksy says he wants the Soviet Union defended.
But wants he would bring down Stalin's government
in the name of Marxist principles!
This would mean civil war. That would defeat us.
Look at your Spanish! yes
It was not the fascist who owns us, but the Trotskyists!
And now, with the fascists over the Europe ...
It might happen again.
-I know of this. "But you do not know is Trotsky.
Trotksy is still has certain power ...
even he is alone, persuades people all over the world.
Look at his guards:
They might have been college boys Sweden, Germany.
It will not persuade me.
Not like the police, the press.
Trotksy was once the most popular man in Russia.
He is equal to Lenin.
But forget it now.
But you don't have to do it.
Its your choice.
Well Anyway, we should have a federal think.
He is not the only one. I also know persuade.
And I will not be alone.
There are some things to handle. For these hands.
Go through here.
And I'm not important.
now shot? you could just sitdown?
You are using my try.
For God sake, you men! You men!
I do not understand.
And they all seem to be playing.
I think there is something going on , somewhere ...
Behing my back, and no one will tells me about.
What is it?
You don't seems to be interested in living.
Why does man not closer to the horns?
-He 's scared? -He doesn't get scared.
He does.
They do not leave the oxes being killed ...
they take them out, treat them and put them back again.
Why only bind for the oxes?
What do you like it? Blood?
-Shut up. What?
-I have never seen people ... "Go away!
What?
Its stupid, if you want to see bullfighting, look!
You have never seen people having so much fun!
Jacques!
damn to your oxes!
Why not learn about things? The reality?
You think fighting since committees, reviews ...
and let the world rot, for your own sport.
I will not,I will not I be different.
Jacques! -I am not Jacques!
I know. -you know nothing!
This can not be decided now. Seventeen years after the event ...
Whether or not the deaths in Kromstadt, which will my responsibility ...
be justified by history or not.
I been was fotological. correct or not."
The civil war is not a school for human behavior.
Idealists and pacifists always blame revolution for excesses.
But the excesses bring from nature of the revolution ...
Which is, in itself, an excess history.
Those who wish to do so they reject the revolution.
I do not reject.
-They haven't found? -No.
And how is your family, Sheldon?
This is not the time, for my friends and idealists who have left ...
to exsumed double their amount of moral if you could heard
the same way a man, feare ...
present double the amount of its normal perspiration.
I do not let him trust you, Sheldon.
Sheldon ...
Otto, I mean, Otto.
I trust that I will earn my place in history ...
Beside Lincoln, the American Civil War.
History has different measures.
The slave owner used his cunning and violence ...
to chain the slaves ...
and the slaves used cunning and violence to break chains.
Only contemptible eunuchs, would say they are equal
before a court morality.
Only contemptible eunuchs would say that they are equal.
before a court morality.
-You can repeat the final? - "History has different measures ...
The slave used cunning and violence ... "
Not after!
"Okay? -All right.
And the slaves used cunning and violence to break chains.
Only contemptible eunuchs would say that they are equal.
before a court of morality.
"All means are acceptable, to lead to the true libration
of mankind. " -Are mandatory.
"They are only acceptable if they lead the unity of the worker. "
Or help them fight against oppression.
Therefore, not all means are acceptable.
You still hav'nt found the leader of the attack?
Sealed doors, shutters windows, new balconies.
It will come as easily next time.
We live in a submarine. With my faithful periscope: Natasha.
No more money my books in France, is not it?
Oh, France.
None of this, or what, but understanding.
"Of course, all with purpose of order ...
-Nazi conquest of Europe. " -Before Hitler was defeated ...
There are many in Europe who will be viped out.
Great tragedies of our times are working for us.
We are all exiles now Marguerita.
I am very grateful for having Sieve France taken in time.
-Sieva miss you. -perhaps less than me.
Let's drink a Sieve. A future revolutionary.
We hope..
You know why Catarina, the Great, died?
In his laboratory. Reading encyclopedias.
I love it!
Sheldon?
Anyway, we all love you
and not Trotksy.
He is an extraordinary man. i think you have to see him.
He may need you.
Probably has a lot people that flatters.
If you want an excuse, for going in
can say is visiting Rosmonds.
They will leaving soon? yes
-How are they going? -By Vera Cruz.
Well, I can go to Vera Cruz. I could take them.
Would you?
But I thought you did not want to meet Trotsky .
-I am not frieghten. what you have been?
I want to ...
What?
For the same reason that it felt to my loss ...
to take part in great events.
my past now cuffs me off from chances of action.
I am reduced to interpreting events and trying to foresee their future course.
Lev?
Where's the food? "I've had our food.
The food for the rabbits. suppose to come today.
-What day is today? -Sunday.
Sunday? in mexico.
We've all fattened for the table.
It's so hot here. It's like being drowned.
Fools!
Monkeys!
I'll give you something. I'll bring soda.
Want to come in?
Why not?
I take it over from you.
Take a snap through there. Will be nice.
you have builting some building.
Sure.
That's good.
like these? -What are they?
- "Lucky Strike." No, I prefer these Mexicans.
Thank you.
-What do you do? -Import and export.
What, for God sake?
I need the faces of the poor.you Know?
I be a nice communist who will mixes up with you?
Well, there is one thing for sure, you are not trying to get in.
You are about the only person in this demn town that is'nt.
But I admire him, you know? might be able to help.
Put him in touch with one or two ...
This must have cost quiet a lot.
In war times. You know, I could be useful.
No politics. too much talking politics.
Like a woman.
The old man like that.
I'll tell him.
Yeah you tell him.
Who was there to say that Trotsky was hated only by Stalin?
Trotksy was hated millions ...
of all nationalities, all over the world.
We convinced of his traitor's role.
Trotksy: encounter-revolutionary. and Enemy of the working class.
If he have to die, or be killed, I would personaly be pleased.
This does not mean I would kill him...
or cause him to be killed.
The Mexican Communist Party does not gives orders for person to be killed.
Trotksy is a political , not a personal enemy.
We shall open enemy doctrine . acts of personnel terrorism .
However, if the evidence that you have,before is true ...
If indeed I did helped in preparation for the Trotksy revenge...
then you have every right to make the logical assumption ...
I might been involved,in the assassination attempt.
Okay, take a hold up now, Jim.
To be uninitiated it may seem incomprehensible ...
that Stalin plea to the first exile me...
and then should attemt to kill me, abroad.
Tighten. Tighten a little more
It may seem incomprehensible ...
that Stalin plea to the first exile me...
and then should attemt to kill me, abroad.
I got it, Ed
would have been simpler, give me a shot in Moscow ...
like so many others.
I'm Peter, a friend and companion of Trotksy.
I am informed that Stalin sevral times admitted ...
that my exile role was a ...
It is a tombstone.
Jim, a man come with a plate.
Have you checked the plate? no i havn't checked any damn plate.
Who the hell are you?
He says he is Peter, come fix a plate.
Jim, my security chief in New York. he is new.
He says he is a friend of Valdez.
I am Sam, the miniapalos Union.
"joined the rmy, see the world. "
Who said you could come in here any way?
He does not may like,to seeing any body today.
Workman he is a friend..
What that?
The old man does not stop him to see him.
All are welcome. What else does he got?
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT SHELDON MURDERED BY STALIN
Come!
The repetition of the attack is inevitable. In what form?
Possibly once again, in the form a pure terrorist attack ...
wher along with machine guns or bombs.
Look good. Still alive.
By the permission of Stalin.
It is the desire of some. I can understand that.
Health, vitality, strength, life.
I am death wish of your modern religions.
I can lucky today.
I have get some money today from Life Magazine.
When our friends? arriving.
Who? -Gita and her husband.
-Later . it is a the lion's den.
-Stop it. doing my job.
See the animals understand. They have premonitions.
I do'nt like you talking like that.
Why? because I said I was lucky?
Art is one of the ways which man finds his support in the world.
No one has much chance enter here ...
what is this noise.
-How are you? -Welcome.
This alarm is very loud.
I have a little button in my room now.
If i press it, I summons legions of helpers.
I was so sad, with what happened.
How wonderful!
You are wonderful. Looks like a battleship!
Now no one can get in. no one.
I can't believe you're going.
All good things start to an end.
Well,we'll see you in Berlin Alfredo.
In the Nazi-Soviet State?
Not you coming?
-Just for a day? -A counter-revolutionary?
I hear our friends are outraged ...
About the Nazi-Soviet pact. I think he come to kidnap me.
I think is understandable?
And my dear friend,i find it childish to deny the Soviet Union the Title of Workers State .
Hysteria and Marxism are absolutely irreconcilable.
They want to take revenge on Stalin.
Trotsky one Trotskyism, without Trotsky.
I'm Sorry, I must work, I can not come with you.
-Thank your friend for asking. Are you sure he wants to take us?
Will the Stock Exchange manage without you?
Yes
Why did'nt he come in?
-He is shy. -Is shy? from us?
Jacques! -You call him Jacques?
He is Fred. Fred Jacson. Jacques!
Jacques, come here.
He is shy.
He is been working to meet you .
-How do you do? -How do you do?
I offer him a cup of tea?
They yours?
-How many? -Six.
Do you like rabbits?
He is a great breader. he is favorite .
Thank you for taking Margaret and Albert.
I would'nt even Vera Cruz,any way sir.
-You found your way here? you're well-guarded.
Its Sieva he takes up the attention most of my guards.
-I heard about our little trouble? -Yes.
They wouldn't try the same, thing twice.
Is a man-informed. I think so.
Guita told me you're not interested in politics.
I think the policy a rival.
Gita, he says politics have its rival.
No, you are. me.. Old men are dangerous.
If they are old enough.
"She does not agree with me. -I agree with you.
Come on. yes yes...
Come and see me after you come back from Vera Cruz.
Goodbye.
- "Au-revoir." -Goodbye.
He won't talk about politics.
Should be more careful, Comrade Trotksy.
Yes
can not, without disgust and horror ...
read the poems and novels, or look at pictures and sculptures ...
in which officers, armed pen, brush or chisel ...
supervised by officers, armed with revolvers ...
glorify the great leaders and genius.
Officers armed pen, brush or chisel ...
supervised by officers, armed with guns ...
glorify the great leaders to e geniuses ...
in which there is the slightest ...
of genius or scope.
The art of the Age of Stalin will remain ...
the most strongest expression, steep decline ...
Of proletariat revolution .
-What are you doing? -Writing.
-What? -An article.
43 years, my conscious life ...
I have been a revolutionary.
And for 42 of those years, i have fought under the banner of Marxism.
If I were to begin again i would, try to avoid this or that mistakes ...
but the main course of my life would remain the same.
I should die a proletarian revolutionary the ...
a Marxist ...
a dialectical materialist ...
and consequently an irreconcilable atheist.
The nature of my illness is such, as I understand ...
that the end must come suddenly probably through a brain hemorrhage.
If, however, I should be threatened with a lasting disability ...
then, I reserve the right to determine ...
for my self the time of my own death.
This suicide if such a term is appropriate ...
Will not any sanse reflect despair ...
or helplessness or holessness.
Whatever the circumstances
I should die utterly believing in the communist future.
Natasha just come from the window, from the courtyard ...
And opened it wider, so that the air may enter more freely into my room.
I can see a bright stripe of green, under the wall ...
and sunlight everywhere.
In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause socialism ...
fate has given me the happiness to be the husband of Natasha.
She has been inexhaustible ...
tenderness, love and magnanimity.
Life is beautiful ...
That future generations get rid of all ...
evil violence and oppression ...
and enjoy it...
fully.
Sorry. Lev Davidovich sleeping.
Will you come in?
Please take a seat.
Would you like some coffee? No, thank you.
A glass of water. -All right.
I am sorry, he spent the night awake.
He worked so hhard. I know he would like to see it.
-Is he sick? No, just tired.
I have something to ask.
"I got an article. -An article?
Frank ... may i call you Frank? have Heard so much about you.
-Where do you come from? -Belgium.
"But Jackson is an English name. -Canadian.
I needed a passport.
Why?
To get away from the war. the Capitalist war.
And where did you lived?
Paris.
Our son was in Paris.
Lev ..
You..
He was about your age,
Did you know him?
I didn't have much to do about politics
What is your article about?
France. the present situation in France.
Our son was murdered in Paris.
They took him to the hospital, he was getting well, but ...
just as he was better...
I do not agree with Guita, you see i think Davidovich wishes is right ...
Soviet Union should be defended.
Me And Guita would had it quite a querell.
Oh these fighting...
Felipe?
There will be a car, and the shipment is complete.
You shouldn't have much trouble.
But there mustn't be any noise.
-What happened to Philip? - perfectly well.
As you will.
Yo got the money? -its is not the money.
Ah no off course.
It will be a hero.
You been in a house?
Yes. I know, is difficult ,We all find that.
Never mind.
Its up to you, of course.
You always say that.
I saw your mother the other day.
She was well.
He says he is Belgian. but
he looks more like a Spanian to me.
He said he made contributions to party funds.
You should not trust him. I do feel you have to ask him...
I brought some chocolates for your wife.
She said she likes chocolate.
They are from Switzerland. -How did you get in?
-The guards are friendly. -Natasha is not here today.
You should not sit so much in the sun.
I fainted my self the other day. It's the altitude here.
I ate some fish. Fish does not do agree with me.
-You got the article? -It is a draft.
A rough draft.
Why don't you take your coat off?
Spends most your time here.
Looks like a monk's cell.
You should get out more.
In the mountains.
I told you like mountains.
Too cold, young man.
Need more work, details ...
Should read.
What do you want?
-Shall I go? -Yes.
Will I come back?
If you like.
For my article. Thank you.
It doesn't matter.
Jacques ...
I can't take this moods of yours any more.
I can not. i am Sorry.
You have been like this for two days. for God sake, what is it?
I saw your gun.
That scared me.
You know ...
i hate like this, I wonder ...
what do you want? what would you like to do? .
Are you sick?
Maybe you should see to the doctor.
I know a good one, in New York.
They can do things you know.
That kind of trouble, i mean.
but you can not?
Why you only ...
with me?
You know?
but you don't have to do it.
Its your choise.
Where you going?
If you go, I'll kill myself.
I think i will go to New York.
Thats tomorrow.
I have something to do, in afternoon.
Will we meet in Edith Caramel.
Thats tonight. -So what are you doing then?
I am going to the bank. I know banks will be closed ...
but I will seeing the manager.
What is this?
What is this qurell between lovers?
Well I do not know ...
who I am.
I do not know who you are.
Guita ...
You never call me Guita.
I just call you Guita.
Its a long time since, I felt so well.
Good afternoon, Harold.
See? they didn't kill us last night after all.
Hey you need your haircut.
Often, i wake in the morning,so I think:
"Why do we wake?"
But then there is you. My Natasha.
The old work horse. you are taking his job from him.
Perhaps, we go out later. To collect some cacti.
Today, I could climb mountains.
You are very patient with me natasha. I'm an cross old man.
When we first came here I use to think.
"What cruel trick,we had no home of own home for such a long time. "
But now I think we may have built something here, Natasha.
Not just walls. But a place with some sanity.
I know that its impossible.
Away to get a message out of this house and around the world ...
In through, the back door.
Who?
Frank Jackson.
Healed? Why do you carry that coat?
Be careful what you eat. The food is dangerous.
Fish and vegetables are all right, as long as you wash them before you eat them.
Its not at high altitude.
They say that when the old worshipers of the sun ..
drew the hearts out of their still living victims...
It was the study the cardial effects of high altitudes.
Best joke. Jewish joke.
Bronstein-Trotsky joke .
The great thing about political writing is clarity.
Do not try to say too many things for the same time.
They like simplicity ...
analyzed separately.
Question of accuracy.
Of will.
Life is complex ...
but in the end is simple.
Help!
Lev!
Help! Help!
Lev! Lev!
Lev!
He did.
The saboteur.at last.
I stopped him.
Tell them not to kill him. He must talk.
Move! hurry! hurry!
Come!
She had nothing to do with it!
She had nothing with it. They took my mother!
-Quick, grab the guy! -They took my mother!
And no one stopped them!
Mother!
Mother! Mother!
Easy.
There is nothing to say.
Get them out of here.
See the barbarians also come.
Natasha.
Do not let them undress me.
I want you to undress me.
Yes
Lies.
All lies.
Who are you?
Who gave the orders?
What were your motives?
-Kill him! "Who gave the orders?
-Kill him! -What were your orders?
Kill him! Kill him!
Please! Kill him!
Kill him!
He is lying! He is lying!
Kill him! Kill him!
Liar! Liar!
Who are you?
I killed Trotsky.
Subtitle by Arif chandio
THE END