Leon Trotsky
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Les Bourreaux de Staline : Katyn, 1940
Cédric Tourbe
Cédric Tourbe, Dmitry Tokarev
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
Amy Stechler
Rita Moreno, Lila Downs
Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural influences that shaped her. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRIDA KAHLO explores the 20th century icon who became an international sensation in the worlds of modern art and radical politics.
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
Human Remains
Jay Rosenblatt
Eva Braun, Francisco Franco
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
Human Remains
Trotsky y México. Dos revoluciones del siglo XX
Adolfo García Videla
Leon Trotsky
"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico.
Trotsky y México. Dos revoluciones del siglo XX
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Cédric Tourbe
Hervé Pierre, Cédric Tourbe
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
El elegido
Antonio Chavarrías
Alfonso Herrera, Hannah Murray
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
The Chosen
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Bill Morrison
Gísli Fannar Gylfason, Erlendur Sveinsson
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin
For 20 years, theirs was an ideological duel between two visions of Communism; a political duel, a duel for power, and above all, a duel to the death. By having Trotsky exiled and finally assassinated, Stalin gained sole control of Russia and became the unassailable dictator of the country.
Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
