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…
Antonio Chavarrías
Casts & Crew
Alfonso Herrera
Hannah Murray
Henry Goodman
Julian Sands
Elvira Mínguez
Emilio Echevarría
Frances Barber
Alejandro Calva
Roger Casamajor
Javier Godino
Toby Harper
Alexander Holtmann
Brontis Jodorowsky
Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Humberto Busto
Jenny Beacraft
Juan Carlos Remolina
Guillermo Ríos
David Hevia
Javier Molina
Peter Nikolas
Lucas Anaya
Ainhoa García Forcada
Carlos Corona
Alondra Hidalgo
Fermín Martínez
Gilberto Barraza
Evaristo Valverde
Memo Villegas
Algis Arlauskas
Jaime Estrada
Víctor Benjumea
Xavier Ruano
Mykola Doroshenko
Darko Pilipovic
Colin Morgan
Peter Theis
Aleh Khaliankou
Raúl Briones Carmona
Tania Olhovich
Luis Miguel Costero L.
Camilla Brett
Enrique Greiner
Marcia Seeman
Gastón Yanes
Ramón Madaula
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Natalia Sedova
Also Directed by Antonio Chavarrías
When flaky novelist Mario turns up one day at the school where Daniel teaches, the educator is convinced the writer is a spirit from his repressed past, buried deep in his subconscious. As children, the two might almost have been brothers. But the marriage between Daniel’s father and Mario’s mother never materialised. This unexpected re-encounter brings both families together. When Mario slits his wrists and dies, Daniel and his wife Laura provide a home for the dead man’s daughter. Laura, who is childless, loves the girl from the moment they meet, but Daniel feels increasingly nervous around her. The demons of his past guilt continue to torment him. Daniel suffers agonies – until things come to a head during a show down in the mountains.
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