The Chosen
Orders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed.
DramaHistoryThrillermexico city, mexicospanish civil war (1936-39)biographybased on true storyhistorical figurepolitical assassinationhistorical event1940s1930ssoviet union history
A tense historical thriller about ideological betrayal and political assassination, grounded in the paranoia and moral corruption of Stalinist espionage.
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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