The Trotsky - Trailer

Trailer for this Montreal-based film about a 17-year-old teen who thinks he's the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky. Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder) plays Leon Bronstein (which was Trotsky's given name), a privileged teen desperately trying to follow the life path of his radical namesake.

After organizing a strike at the small factory his father (Saul Rubinek) owns, Leon gets pulled from boarding school and sent to the local public school. Things start to fall into place for him when he meets an older woman named Alexandra (Emily Hampshire) and finds a cause worth fighting against in his new school's repressive administration (led by a menacing Colm Feore). However, inspiring revolutionary fervour in his lacklustre classmates proves challenging and Leon has to resort to extreme tactics.

Synopsis:
Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father (Saul Rubinek) sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papas clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term student union, determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.

Directed by Jacob Tierney
Cast: Baruchel .... Leon, Colm, Principal Berkhoff, Liane Balaban, Saul Rubinek

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Leon Bronstein
• Jacob Tierney
• Colm Feore
• Principal Berkhoff
• Liane Balaban
• Saul Rubinek

[Thekillerrrsss]

41 people are Stalinist assholes

[dzgfdg]

@DrMuganda bwahahahahaha, you are obviously an ignorant inbred idiot.

Trotsky never killed ANYONE, not even one Tsarist pig.

[acb1511]

@dzgfdg I am sorry, that I interrupt, but Trotsky was defeinetively anything but a pacifist. He was a quiet harsh political leader and QUIET a hars militay commander, somethnig like Zhukov. But Zhukov did not decimate troops which retreated without an upstading order.

Greetings from USSR.

[ModelTXInfAmY]

@egoralina Refreshing to see some is not an idiot.

[annickooo]

@crazymonkeyman909887 its called ''Montréal -40'' by Malajube

[crazymonkeyman909887]

whats the song at @1:38 someone please tell me!

[Independentminded1]

gentlemen you speak of Trotsky as if he's the only leader in history ordering

genocide,you know how many indians or irish poeple were being slaughterd & raped by the british empire or south american poeple by the US around the very same time as trosky & in far greater numbers than trosky. It would appear you boys aren't that familiar with history cuz he lead the Left Opposition in a failed attempt at stoping the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin, this is what lead to his Assassination in Mexico

[BuecherFuerAlle]

Stalin, Friend, Comrade!

[MrHatLOL]

@dzgfdg Makhnovshchina, ever heard of it retard? Trotsky was a failed Stalin, nothing more. Retard.

[ultimatedwarf1]

why isnt there a movie that is about the real trotsky. the melshivik who joined lenin and slaughtered his enemies to bring equality to russia. you might know of him

[Bibilezoive]

This movie would have been much realistic if he slaughtered half of the class mate, mass rape the people of the town, burn some churches and burry the director alive....

[Bibilezoive]

@dzgfdg ...................... Trosky was a revolutionary, fight a civil war and killed a fucking lot of people. Man you just so fucking ignorant