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Leon Trotsky (Russian: Лев Троцкий, pronounced [ˈlʲef ˈtrot͡skʲɪj] ( listen); 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.
Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918–20). He was also among the first members of the Politburo.
After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from the Communist Party, deported from the Soviet Union and assassinated on Stalin's orders. An early advocate of Red Army intervention against European fascism, Trotsky also opposed Stalin's non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s.
Actors: Slavoj Zizek (actor), Irene Höfer (producer), Peter Sloterdijk (actor), Carsten 'Peewee' Piefke (editor), Nebojsa Andric (editor), Jason Barker (producer), Toni Negri (actor), Ivan Nikolic (actor), Jason Barker (actor), Jason Barker (writer), Jason Barker (director), Michael Hardt (actor), Stevan Djordjevic (editor), Andreas Schroth (producer), Alberto Toscano (actor),
Plot: Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-09. The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from collapse. Today the full implications of the crisis in Europe and around the world still remain unclear. Nevertheless, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effects on our society, our economy and our whole way of life? Written and directed by Jason Barker - himself an experienced writer, lecturer, translator and doctor of philosophy - Marx Reloaded comprises interviews with the world's leading philosophers of Marxism, including those at the forefront of a popular revival in Marxist and communist ideas. The film also includes interviews with skeptics of this revival as well as light-hearted animation sequences which follow Marx's adventures through the matrix of his own ideas.
Keywords: 2d-animation, communism, marxism, philosophyActors: Yuriy Kutsenko (actor), Andrey Krasko (actor), Gary Busey (actor), Oleg Tabakov (actor), Valentina Telichkina (actress), Roman Madyanov (actor), Andrei Tolubeyev (actor), Sean Young (actress), Pyotr Merkurev (actor), Vladimir Valutskiy (writer), Tatyana Lyutaeva (actress), Aleksandr Mikhaylov (actor), Konstantin Ernst (producer), Nikolay Olyalin (actor), Konstantin Khabenskiy (actor),
Plot: After policeman Aleksandr Hlystov receives an old photo of poet Esenin's dead body just taken out of a loop he immediately begins an investigation, not an official one, but he tries to solve the mystery by himself. The more he learns about Esenin's life and death, the weirder the case gets...
Keywords: tv-mini-seriesActors: Patricia Reyes Spíndola (actress), Julie Weiss (costume designer), Salma Hayek (actress), Valeria Golino (actress), Ashley Judd (actress), Salma Hayek (producer), Saffron Burrows (actress), Edward Norton (actor), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Diego Luna (actor), Roger Rees (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Alfred Molina (actor), Joy Ellison (miscellaneous crew), Mark Amin (producer),
Plot: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, accident, adulterous-wife, adultery, amusement-park, art, art-exhibition, art-modelActors: Rafael Castanedo (editor), Bruno Bichir (actor), Gina Morett (actress), Claudio Brook (actor), Salvador Sánchez (actor), Paul Leduc (director), Ofelia Medina (actress), Paul Leduc (writer), Max Kerlow (actor), Pedro Altamirano (actor), Odiseo Bichir (actor), Juan Ángel Martínez (actor), Manuel Barbachano Ponce (producer), Juan José Gurrola (actor), Paloma Woolrich (actress),
Plot: The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.
Keywords: amputee, artist, mexican-history, muralism, polio, radical, wheelchairActors: William Hootkins (actor), Dominique Pinon (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), Philip Madoc (actor), Ken McMullen (writer), Ken McMullen (director), Ken McMullen (producer), Kevin Phelan (miscellaneous crew), George Antoni (actor), Maureen O'Brien (actress), Domiziana Giordano (actress), Paul Geoffrey (actor), Tusse Silberg (actress), Robert Hargreaves (editor), Gaby Dellal (actress),
Plot: Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria and Zina commits suicide.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, independent-filmActors: Åke Lindman (actor), John Ratzenberger (actor), Jerry Hardin (actor), George Jessel (actor), George Plimpton (actor), Jack Nicholson (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), R.G. Armstrong (actor), Warren Beatty (actor), Gene Hackman (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Nicolas Coster (actor), William Daniels (actor), Josef Sommer (actor), Shane Rimmer (actor),
Plot: This movie tells the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He soon meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with "witnesses", the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie.
Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, afi, anarchism, apology, arrest, art-gallery, based-on-book, cheating-on-boyfriend, chicago-illinoisActors: Simone Valère (actress), Joseph Losey (producer), Romy Schneider (actress), Richard Burton (actor), Jack Betts (actor), Claudio Brook (actor), Valentina Cortese (actress), Alain Delon (actor), Jean Desailly (actor), Michael Forest (actor), V.I. Lenin (actor), Bruno Boschetti (actor), Giorgio Albertazzi (actor), Enrico Maria Salerno (actor), Egisto Macchi (composer),
Plot: After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jackson. Jackson befriends a young communist and gets an invitation to Trotsky's house.
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Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jay Eaton (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), James Eagles (actor), William Arnold (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), William Bailey (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Curtis Benton (actor), Leo Carrillo (actor), G. Pat Collins (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), Clark Gable (actor),
Plot: Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a D.A. vying for the Governorship. When Blackie's girlfriend Eleanor leaves him and marries the more down to earth Wade, Blackie harbors no resentment. In fact, their friendship is so strong that Blackie murders an attorney threatening to derail Wade's bid to become Governor. The morally straight Wade's last job as D.A. is to convict his friend of the murder, and send him to the electric chair. After he becomes Governor, Wade has the authority to commute Blackie's death sentence-- a decision that pits his high moral ethics against a lifelong friendship.
Keywords: adoption, anchor, apartment, bad-luck, betting-on-a-horse, binoculars, black-man, blind-beggar, boat, boxing