What Happened Here?2012
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Rare and unique moment in history and an important and forgotten history maker life.
was hoping for a film on trotsky by someone who understood and admired him, but this film isn't that. the filmmaker consistently confounds trotsky/leninism with stalinism and on this basis the film fails before it really gets going. too bad, because we could really have benefited from a good film about trotsky from someone who understands that rather crucial difference.
comparisons to marker and godard are a bit of a stretch, too, alas...
What starts out as a most interesting trip into the youth of Leo Trotsky and to his birthplace, soon becomes a documentation not only about the Bronsteins (Trotsky's real family name) but also of the lives of the people still living near the now vanished town (Koloniya Gromokley) where Trotsky grew up. In the second part the film centers around a massacre of the german SS killing almost all the jews in Koloniya Gromokley. Touching and shocking to see how the memories of the cruelties and murders some 60 years ago are reflected on the faces of the witnesses.
An outstanding piece of humanist film making.