The Chosen
El elegido
2016 · 1h 51m · Drama, History, Thriller · Mexico, Spain
Orders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed.
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.
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Antonio Chavarrías6.0Smart score
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1930s1940sbased on true storybiographyhistorical eventhistorical figuremexico city, mexicopolitical assassinationsoviet union historyspanish civil war (1936-39)
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