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The First Circle

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The First Circle

4.8

3h 0m

1992

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

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Cast & Crew

Laurent Malet

Laurent Malet

as Innokenty Volodin

F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham

as Stalin

Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer

as Viktor Abakumov

Robert Powell

Robert Powell

as Gleb Nershin

Victor Garber

Victor Garber

as Lew Rubin

Dominic Raacke

Dominic Raacke

as Nikolaj Schtschagow

Günther Maria Halmer

Günther Maria Halmer

as Wladimir Tschelnow

Coraly Zahonero

Coraly Zahonero

as Clara Makaraguine

Heath Lamberts

Heath Lamberts

as Major Shikin

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