One of the most infamous assassinations of the 20th Century was the 1940 murder of Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, by the long and implacable arm of Stalin's secret police. An event that was later seen as one of the first government sponsored exercises of raw, bloody terrorism, this was the event that sealed the fate of Soviet Russia and guaranteed that it would be a Stalinist repressive dictatorship and not the Communism that Lenin dreamed would govern the USSR.

Famed director Joseph Losey brought together a cast of stars, who have since become legendary, from four countries to create his lost masterpiece of filmmaking. Historically accurate and yet as charged with tension and emotion as any best selling novel, The Assassination Of Trotsky is utterly unforgettable.