Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


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