Film

The Chosen

Orders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed.

5.8

1h 51m

2016

“Orders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed.”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Antonio Chavarrías

DramaHistoryThriller

mexico city, mexicospanish civil war (1936-39)biographybased on true storyhistorical figurepolitical assassinationhistorical event1940s1930ssoviet union history