The First Circle (1992)
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.
Thriller, TV Movie
Cast
- Laurent Malet — Innokenty Volodin
- F. Murray Abraham — Stalin
- Christopher Plummer — Viktor Abakumov
- Robert Powell — Gleb Nershin
- Victor Garber — Lew Rubin
- Dominic Raacke — Nikolaj Schtschagow
- Günther Maria Halmer — Wladimir Tschelnow
- Coraly Zahonero — Clara Makaraguine
- Heath Lamberts — Major Shikin
- David Hewlett — 'Ruska' Rostislav
- Alexandra Stewart — Aletvina Makaraguine
- Raf Vallone — Pyotr Makaraguine
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