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
Colin Morgan
Comtesse Waiter
Joseph Stalin
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Hannah Murray
Sylvia Ageloff
Henry Goodman
Trotsky
Javier Godino
Costa
Peter Nikolas
Pablo
Alondra Hidalgo
Amparo
Fermín Martínez
Sergeant
Roger Casamajor
Carles Vidal
Humberto Busto
Homero
Guillermo Ríos
'El Negro'
Carlos Corona
Man in Hat
Raúl Briones
Melquíades
Tania Olhovich
Trotsky's Secretary
Evaristo Valverde
Sergeant Commander
Algis Arlauskas
General
Ramón Madaula
Narrator (voice)
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Narrator (voice)
Leon Trotsky
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Emilio Echevarría
Salazar
Brontis Jodorowsky
Otto
Gilberto Barraza
Uniformed Man A
Elvira Mínguez
Caridad Mercader
Frances Barber
Natalia Sedova
Juan Carlos Remolina
Estrada
Memo Villegas
Uniformed Commander
Vladimir Lenin
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Alejandro Calva
Siqueiros
Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Balderas
Víctor Benjumea
GPU Interrogator
Alfonso Herrera
Ramón Mercader
Julian Sands
Kotov
Jenny Beacraft
Ruby Weill