The Chosen
Orders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed.
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
Cast
Tania Olhovich
Trotsky's Secretary
Alfonso Herrera
Ramón Mercader
Javier Godino
Costa
Víctor Benjumea
GPU Interrogator
Raúl Briones
Melquíades
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Narrator (voice)
Emilio Echevarría
Salazar
Humberto Busto
Homero
Carlos Corona
Man in Hat
Julian Sands
Kotov
Peter Nikolas
Pablo
Jenny Beacraft
Ruby Weill
Fermín Martínez
Sergeant
Memo Villegas
Uniformed Commander
Joseph Stalin
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Juan Carlos Remolina
Estrada
Gilberto Barraza
Uniformed Man A
Vladimir Lenin
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Leon Trotsky
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Alejandro Calva
Siqueiros
Algis Arlauskas
General
Colin Morgan
Comtesse Waiter
Ramón Madaula
Narrator (voice)
Elvira Mínguez
Caridad Mercader
Frances Barber
Natalia Sedova
Roger Casamajor
Carles Vidal
Brontis Jodorowsky
Otto
Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Balderas
Alondra Hidalgo
Amparo
Evaristo Valverde
Sergeant Commander
Hannah Murray
Sylvia Ageloff
Henry Goodman
Trotsky
Guillermo Ríos
'El Negro'