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