The Trotsky
U.S. Premiere

The Trotsky

Discovery
| Canada | 114 MINUTES | English
Comedy

Like most high schoolers, Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel, Tropic Thunder) is having an identity crisis. What differentiates Leon, however, is that he believes he is the reincarnation of Soviet thinker Leon Trotksy, predestined to follow the same path as his namesake. When sentenced to public school as punishment for staging a hunger strike in his father's factory, Leon just sees it as another step toward the fulfillment of his destiny. After all, teeming with Stalinesque authoritarians and throngs of budding individuals without a voice, what arena could be more apropos for social reinvention than high school? He quickly enlists a clan of disenchanted youth, and together they devise a plan to take down the dictator—er, principal—and restore the spirits of their teenage brethren.

Director Jacob Tierney cleverly weaves the pillars of the real Trotsky's life with the tribulations of a passionate high schooler by coupling the awkwardness of our formative years with those gosh-darn proletarian struggles of yesteryear. This "revolutionary" comedy will have you red-faced with laughter. Students of the world, unite!


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Jacob Tierney and Jacob Tierney
Jacob Tierney has worked as an actor since the age of six in films like Josh and S.A.M., The Neon Bible, and This Is My Father. He directed the short film Dad and the feature Twist, which premiered at Venice. The Trotsky is his feature debut, and he is at work on the follow-up, Notre Dame de Grace.
Screenwriter
Jacob Tierney
Director
Jacob Tierney
Director of Photography
Guy Dufaux
Producer
Kevin Tierney
Primary Cast
Jay Baruchel, Geneviève Bujold, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Colm Feore, Emily Hampshire, Michael Murphy, Saul Rubinek
Editor
Arthur Tarnowski
Production Designer
Anne Pritchard

Contacts
Director's Manager
Frank Fratteroli
DF Management
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 343-0069
ff@df-mgmt.com
Technical Contact
Pierre Theriault
pther@videotron.ca
Director's Agent
Celia Chassels
Gary Goddard Agency
Toronto, ON M4Y 1P9
Phone: 416-928-0299
celiachasselsgga@bellnet.ca
Print Source
Tribeca Film Festival
New York, NY 10013
Phone: 212 941 2388
info@tribecafilm.com
Producer
Kevin Tierney
Park Ex Pictures
Montreal, QC H4C 2Z6
Phone: (514) 933-4133
info@parkexpictures.ca
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