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