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.

Drama History Thriller

Alfonso Herrera

(Ramón Mercader)

Hannah Murray

(Sylvia Ageloff)

Henry Goodman

Julian Sands

Elvira Mínguez

(Caridad Mercader)

Emilio Echevarría

Frances Barber

(Natalia Sedova)

Alejandro Calva

Roger Casamajor

Javier Godino

Toby Harper

Alexander Holtmann

Brontis Jodorowsky

Gustavo Sánchez Parra

Humberto Busto

Jenny Beacraft

Juan Carlos Remolina

Guillermo Ríos

David Hevia

Javier Molina

Peter Nikolas

Lucas Anaya

Ainhoa García Forcada

Carlos Corona

Alondra Hidalgo

Fermín Martínez

Gilberto Barraza

(Uniformed Man A)

Evaristo Valverde

(Sergeant Commander)

Memo Villegas

(Uniformed Commander)

Algis Arlauskas

Jaime Estrada

(Cabaret Waiter)

Víctor Benjumea

(GPU Interrogator)

Xavier Ruano

Mykola Doroshenko

(Soviet Field Marshal #1)

Darko Pilipovic

(Soviet Field Marshal #2)

Colin Morgan

(Comtesse Waiter)

Peter Theis

Aleh Khaliankou

(GPU Instructor)

Raúl Briones

Tania Olhovich

(Trotsky's Secretary)

Luis Miguel Costero L.

Camilla Brett

Enrique Greiner

Marcia Seeman

Gastón Yanes

(Leopoldo Rosmer)

Ramón Madaula

(Narrator (voice))

Daniel Giménez Cacho

(Narrator (voice))

Vladimir Lenin

(Himself - Politician (archive footage))

Leon Trotsky

(Himself - Politician (archive footage))

Joseph Stalin

(Himself - Politician (archive footage))

Natalia Sedova

(Herself - Trotsky's Wife (archive footage))