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