The Chosen
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.
Release Date
September 2, 2016Runtime
111 minDirected by
Antonio Chavarrías, Belén López Albert, Carles Velat Angelat, María Fernanda Rivero Payán, Fernanda Plana, Carles Curt, Mercè Coll, Alexander Dahm, Miguel Lima, Miriam Go, María Beltrán, Miguel Lozano, Brenda Gómez MagañaScreenplay by
Antonio ChavarríasLanguage
Spanish; CastilianBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Alfonso Herrera
Ramón MercaderHannah Murray
Sylvia AgeloffHenry Goodman
TrotskyJulian Sands
KotovElvira Mínguez
Caridad MercaderEmilio Echevarría
SalazarFrances Barber
Natalia SedovaAlejandro Calva
SiqueirosRoger Casamajor
Carles VidalJavier Godino
CostaBrontis Jodorowsky
OttoGustavo Sánchez Parra
BalderasHumberto Busto
HomeroJuan Carlos Remolina
EstradaGuillermo Ríos
'El Negro'Peter Nikolas
PabloCarlos Corona
Man in HatAlondra Hidalgo
AmparoFermín Martínez
SergeantGilberto Barraza
Uniformed Man AAlgis Arlauskas
GeneralVíctor Benjumea
GPU InterrogatorColin Morgan
Comtesse WaiterRaúl Briones
MelquíadesRamón 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)Images
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