The Chosen
2016
1h 51min
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.
Storyline
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.
Released
September 2016
Runtime
1h 51min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
Spanish
Production
Oberón Cinematográfica, Alebrije Producciones, Altavista Films, TVE, TV3
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
Toby Harper
Robins
Alexander Holtmann
Sheldon
Brontis Jodorowsky
Otto
Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Balderas
Humberto Busto
Homero
Jenny Beacraft
Ruby Weill
Juan Carlos Remolina
Estrada
Guillermo Ríos
'El Negro'
David Hevia
Herrera
Javier Molina
Rosell
Peter Nikolas
Pablo
Lucas Anaya
Sieva
Ainhoa García Forcada
Carmen
Carlos Corona
Man in Hat
Alondra Hidalgo
Amparo
Fermín Martínez
Sergeant
Gilberto Barraza
Uniformed Man A
Evaristo Valverde
Sergeant Commander
Memo Villegas
Uniformed Commander
Algis Arlauskas
General
Jaime Estrada
Cabaret Waiter
Víctor Benjumea
GPU Interrogator
Xavier Ruano
GPU Man
Mykola Doroshenko
Soviet Field Marshal #1
Darko Pilipovic
Soviet Field Marshal #2
Colin Morgan
Comtesse Waiter
Peter Theis
Schnautz
Aleh Khaliankou
GPU Instructor
Raúl Briones
Melquíades
Tania Olhovich
Trotsky's Secretary
Luis Miguel Costero L.
Hansen
Camilla Brett
Greta
Enrique Greiner
Cooper
Marcia Seeman
Helen
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)
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