The Last Days of Leon Trotsky - By Dragon Dance Theatre

President Lazaro Cardenas granted Leon Trotsky political asylum in 1937 and he was invited by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to live with them in Coyacan, just outside of Mexico city. Later he lived in a fortified house on Vienna Street just a few blocks away.
Trotsky continued writing his history of the Russian Revolution while being pursued by the Stalinists, including the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueros.
In the late afternoon of August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated, in his library, by an agent of Stalin, who had infiltrated his home.
At the time Diego was considered a suspect in this affair.
This movie is a Dragon
Dance Theatre adaptation of an idea suggested by Abraham Oceransky.

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