The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)

In college I wrote a paper on Trotsky for a history of socialism class. During the course of my research I learned that there had been a film made about the exiled communist leaders assassination, and according to my sources the movie was bad. Well I have now seen this movie and know with a surety my sources to have been correct. This movie was nothing so much as slow and boring, I was only kind of half (more like a fifth) paying attention through most of the film. You know regardless of what one thinks about Trotsky, he was a charismatic and capable revolutionary who earned the ill will of Stalin, spent much of his life in exile, and was eventually killed by an ax to the back of the head. This movie should have been exciting, it was not. 1 ½ out of 5.