Oh my! This was shocking melodrama, so turgid and pointless I wished to not be compelled to watch it but I was most compelled – there must be a term for this.
Alain Delon does his best. But then, how can you cast Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky? It’s a shocking performance from a bang-average actor. I suppose there are financial reasons behind these casting decisions, or why one would make a honking movie about such a creature like that in the first place.
The veneration of ghastly things. That’s the 20th century.
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 