The First Circle (1992)
1992 · 3h 0m · Thriller, TV Movie
Genres: Thriller, TV Movie
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.
Director: Sheldon Larry
Writers: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Marcel Jullian, M. Charles Cohen
Music by: Gabriel Yared
Cinematography: Ron Orieux
Cast
Laurent Malet as Innokenty VolodinF. Murray Abraham as StalinChristopher Plummer as Viktor AbakumovRobert Powell as Gleb NershinVictor Garber as Lew RubinDominic Raacke as Nikolaj SchtschagowGünther Maria Halmer as Wladimir TschelnowCoraly Zahonero as Clara MakaraguineHeath Lamberts as Major ShikinDavid Hewlett as 'Ruska' RostislavAlexandra Stewart as Aletvina MakaraguineRaf Vallone as Pyotr MakaraguineMore like this
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