Drama ·History ·Thriller · Mexico · 2016 · 1h 51m

The Chosen

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Director
Antonio Chavarrías
Cast
Alfonso Herrera as Ramón Mercader Hannah Murray as Sylvia Ageloff Henry Goodman as Trotsky Julian Sands as Kotov Elvira Mínguez as Caridad Mercader Emilio Echevarría as Salazar
Crew
Guillermo Granillo — Director of Photography Francisco X. Rivera — Editor Ernest Blasi — Editor David Gallart — Editor Arnau Bataller — Original Music Composer Antonio Chavarrías — Screenplay
Tagline

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.

Mood & Themes
mexico city, mexicospanish civil war (1936-39)biographybased on true storyhistorical figurepolitical assassinationhistorical event1940s1930ssoviet union history
Key Collaborators
Antonio Chavarrías Director Guillermo Granillo Director of Photography Francisco X. Rivera Editor Ernest Blasi Editor David Gallart Editor Arnau Bataller Original Music Composer Antonio Chavarrías Screenplay Mónica Lozano Producer Antonio Chavarrías Producer Antonio Muñohierro Production Design
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