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.
- Date of release
- 1992-02-25
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 3h 0m
- Genres
- Thriller, TV Movie
- Director
- Sheldon Larry
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
- Based on: The First Circle
The First Circle is a 1992 Canadian-French made-for-television drama film directed by Sheldon Larry, starring Victor Garber, Christopher Plummer, F. Murray Abraham and Robert Powell. It is an adaptation of the novel In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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