Production Companies

Oberón Cinematográfica, Alebrije Producciones, Altavista Films, TVE, TV3

Overview

"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.