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.
mexico city, mexico
spanish civil war (1936-39)
biography
based on true story
historical figure
political assassination
historical event
1940s
1930s
soviet union history