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.


Orders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed.
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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