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