A heavily made-up woman smoking a cigarette is reading poetry, then suddenly disrobes, and the Bolshevik revolutionary grasps her in an embrace. This is how viewers will first see Trotsky, one of the most controversial figures of the Russian Revolution, in a new high-budget series that will premiere on Russian state television on Monday, the day before the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik uprising. “Trotsky is a real rock’n’roll star, and for the whole of his life, not just during the October Revolution,” said Konstantin Ernst, who was a producer on the show. We thought ‘he is a character that can be understandable for the younger audience’.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Konstantin Khabensky as Leon Trotsky. “The descendants of Trotsky today are terrorists, extremists and anti-globalists.”Ernst said Trotsky was a complicated figure and that viewers should draw their own conclusions.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2017 05:00 UTC