Despite its reputation for being god-awful,* The Assassination of Trotsky is one of Joseph Losey’s moodiest, most powerful films. Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, here rechristened Frank Jacson (Alain Delon, excellent), and not Trotsky, is the central character. Internet critic Fernando F. Croce has drawn the main contrast between Jacson and Trotsky, saying that Jacson is […]