Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, politician, journalist and political theorist. He was a central figure in the establishment of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, Trotsky's writings and thought inspired a major school of the ideology known as Trotskyism.

KNOWN FOR

Mr. Nobody Against Putin
2025
A History of Antisemitism
2022
Apocalypse: Stalin
2015
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999
Leon Trotsky - The Life of a Revolutionary
2017
História do Comunismo
2024
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
Stalin: Man of Steel
2003
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
2020
The History of the Civil War
1921
The Chosen
2016
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
1962

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
29
2025
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
The Mummy
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Return of Vertov
as Self (archive footage)
2024
História do Comunismo
as Self
2022
A History of Antisemitism
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2021
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017
Leon Trotsky - The Life of a Revolutionary
as Self (archive footage)
2016
The Chosen
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
2015
Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
as Lev Davidovich Trotsky
2015
Apocalypse: Stalin
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
Trotsky y México. Dos revoluciones del siglo XX
2005
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Stalin: Man of Steel
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
as Self (archive footage)
1998
Human Remains
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
as Self (archive footage)
1973
1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
The Guns of August
as Self (archive footage)
1962
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1953
Halfway to Hell
as Self (archive footage)
1937
Tsar to Lenin
as Self (archive footage)
1934
Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown
1923
Kino-Pravda No. 14
as Self (archive footage)
1921
The History of the Civil War
as Self - Soviet Politician
1919
The Brain of Soviet Russia
as Self
1918
Anniversary of the Revolution
as Self - Politician