The Chosen

Drama, History, Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Antonio Chavarrías

Status Released

Release Date 2016-09-02

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.

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