The Chosen (2016)
02/09/2016
Drama, History, Thriller
1h 51m
- 58% (33 votes)
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Orders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed.
Overview
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.
- Antonio ChavarríasDirector, Screenplay
Original Title
El elegido
Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Keywords
- mexico city, mexico
- spanish civil war (1936-39)
- biography
- based on true story
- historical figure
- political assassination
- historical event
- 1940s
- 1930s
- soviet union history
Top Billed Cast
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
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