The Trotsky Review

Leon is determined to live out his destiny by staging a union-led hunger strike at his father’s clothing factory, leading to his transfer to a public high school where he attempts to organize his apathetic peers against a "dictatorial" administration.

" The Trotsky " (2009) is a Canadian comedy film written and directed by Jacob Tierney, starring Jay Baruchel as Leon Bronstein, a Montreal teenager convinced he is the reincarnation of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. The Trotsky

Leon tries to replicate Trotsky’s life, including searching for his own "Lenin" and "Alexandra" (his future wife), leading to a May-December romance with a graduate student. Leon is determined to live out his destiny