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.
- 5.8
- 2016
- Released
- 1h 51m
Alfonso Herrera
Ramón Mercader
Hannah Murray
Sylvia Ageloff
Henry Goodman
Trotsky
Julian Sands
Kotov
Elvira Mínguez
Caridad Mercader
Emilio Echevarría
Salazar
Frances Barber
Natalia Sedova
Alejandro Calva
Siqueiros
Roger Casamajor
Carles Vidal
Javier Godino
Costa
Toby Harper
RobinsAlexander Holtmann
Sheldon
Brontis Jodorowsky
Otto
Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Balderas
Humberto Busto
Homero
Jenny Beacraft
Ruby Weill
Juan Carlos Remolina
Estrada
Guillermo Ríos
'El Negro'David Hevia
HerreraJavier Molina
Rosell
Peter Nikolas
PabloLucas Anaya
SievaAinhoa García Forcada
Carmen
Carlos Corona
Man in Hat
Alondra Hidalgo
Amparo
Fermín Martínez
Sergeant
Gilberto Barraza
Uniformed Man A
Evaristo Valverde
Sergeant Commander
Memo Villegas
Uniformed CommanderJaime Estrada
Cabaret Waiter
Víctor Benjumea
GPU InterrogatorXavier Ruano
GPU ManMykola Doroshenko
Soviet Field Marshal #1Darko Pilipovic
Soviet Field Marshal #2
Colin Morgan
Comtesse WaiterAleh Khaliankou
GPU Instructor
Raúl Briones
Melquíades
Tania Olhovich
Trotsky's SecretaryLuis Miguel Costero L.
HansenCamilla Brett
GretaEnrique Greiner
CooperMarcia Seeman
HelenGastón Yanes
Leopoldo Rosmer
Ramón 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)Natalia Sedova
Herself - Trotsky's Wife (archive footage)Released
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