by Iotis Erlewine
synopsis
In this film, Harvey Keitel plays Nikolai Bukharin, one of the leaders of the October Revolution that toppled the Czarist government in 1917. A member of the Politburo and editor of Pravda, he was removed by Stalin. Arrested in the Great Purge of 1937, he was executed the following year.
characteristics
- Fall From Power
- Totalitarian States
- Political Unrest
- Oppression
- Revolt
- Revolution
- Honor [recognition]
- Government
- Arrest
- Editor
- Execution
- Exile
