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