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Status
Released
Release
2016
Runtime
1h 51m
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"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.
51 Cast Members
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
Robins
Alexander 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
Herrera
Javier Molina
Rosell
