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Film Review

Exile in Buyukada. Written and directed by Turan Yavuz. Produced by Ayda Yavuz. Turkey. In Russian, French, and Turkish, with English narration and subtitles. 2002; color; 72 min. Distributed by Pathfinder Home Entertainment.
In the eleven years following his expulsion from the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik leader and Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) exposed the crimes of Joseph Stalin through his writings, tried to organize a worldwide current of opposition to capitalism and Stalinism alike, and lived with the dark foreboding of his own eventual demise at Stalin's machination. Exile in Buyukada is a plausible cinematic evocation of Trotsky's time of persecution and frustration. A hybrid of documentary and drama based on Isaac Deutscher's celebrated biography, The Prophet Outcast (1963), and narrated enchantingly by English actress Vanessa Redgrave, the film depicts Trotsky in his Turkish exile. Its earliest shots show Trotsky standing on the deck of the ship Ilych (V. I. Lenin's middle name) on a cold February day in 1929, heading from Odessa to Constantinople. His wife Natalia Sedova is at his side, white-capped waves roll below, and GPU agents peer ominously from the stern.	1
Russian actor Victor Sergachev is a dead ringer for Trotsky, albeit the Trotsky of 1940 rather than 1930. His understated performance conveys well Trotsky's brilliance, concentration, rigidity, and conviction. Sergachev surpasses the meager performances of Richard Burton in The Assassination of Leon Trotsky (1972) and Geoffrey Rush in Frida (2002), although the latter film is a visual feast at gourmet level, far beyond the humble production values and somewhat dry delivery of Exile in Buyukada.	. . .

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