The First Circle (1992)

5.0/10 • 180 min • Thriller TV Movie

Overview

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.

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

Vernon Dobtcheff

Riyumin

Daniel Emilfork

Nikol

Corinne Touzet

Nadia Nerzhin

Valéria Cavalli

Dottnara Volodine

Raymond Cloutier

Grigory Adamson

Pascal Greggory

Arthur Siromaka

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