Le brahmane du Komintern

From Mexico to Russia from Germany to India director Vladimir Léon goes in search of a revolutionary adventurer from Bengal M N Roy Founder of a communist party in Zapatas Mexico leader of the Communist International in Soviet Russia alongside Lenin antiStalinist and antiNazi activist in prewar Germany politician and atheist philosopher in postindependence India Roy embodies the struggles of a century that he crossed on three continents However the official histories of these countries have preferred to erase the trace By meeting with direct and indirect witnesses Léon patiently reconstructs the chaotic existence of a free spirit