5.350 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestThe life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.
Acting
Khabenskiy's hypnotic performance—charming, monstrous, pathetic, all at once.
Direction
Malovichko traps you in that cactus-walled compound, no escape.
Production
Frida Kahlo's actual house, her paintings watching like judgmental ghosts.
Creator
Oleg Malovichko
Konstantin Khabenskiy
Лев Давидович Троцкий
Olga Sutulova
Наталья Седова
Aleksandra Mareeva
Александра Соколовская
Maksim Matveev
Фрэнк Джексон, (Рамон Меркадер)
Evgeniy Stychkin
Владимир Ильич Ленин
Mikhail Porechenkov
Александр Парвус
Sergey Garmash
Николай Троцкий (полицейский надзиратель)
Sergei Bezrukov
Владимир Скалон
Sergey Sosnovsky
Давид Бронштейн
Pyotr Zhuravlyov
Гиндербург
Aleksey Fokin
офицер охраны
Viktoriya Poltorak
Фрида Кало
Kirill Zaytsev
Фёдор Раскольников
Andrius Paulavičius
Герр Коберт
Orkhan Abulov
Сталин
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Konstantin Khabenskiy learned Spanish for months to perfect Trotsky's accent, then discovered almost no one in Mexico 1940 spoke to him in Spanish anyway.
This was Russia's most expensive TV production ever at the time, partly funded as explicit pushback against Western depictions of Soviet history—yet it arguably makes Trotsky look worse than any Western take.
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