The Chosen (2016)
El elegido
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.
- Date of release
- 2016-09-02
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (37)
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Thriller
- Director
- Antonio Chavarrías
Casting
- Alfonso Herrera — Ramón Mercader
- Hannah Murray — Sylvia Ageloff
- Henry Goodman — Trotsky
- Julian Sands — Kotov
- Elvira Mínguez — Caridad Mercader
- Emilio Echevarría — Salazar
- Frances Barber — Natalia Sedova
- Alejandro Calva — Siqueiros
- Roger Casamajor — Carles Vidal
- Javier Godino — Costa
- Toby Harper — Robins
- Alexander Holtmann — Sheldon
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