The First Circle

Story

Synopsis

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

Marcel Jullian, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, M. Charles Cohen

Language

English

Country

France, United States of America

Release date

25 February 1992

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Laurent Malet

  Innokenty Volodin

• 

  F. Murray Abraham

  Stalin

• 

  Dominic Raacke

  Nikolaj Schtschagow

• 

  Christopher Plummer

  Viktor Abakumov

• 

  Robert Powell

  Gleb Nershin

• 

  Victor Garber

  Lew Rubin

• 

  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