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Film / 1992
The First Circle
Directed by
Sheldon Larry
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.
The story
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 MaletInnokenty Volodin
F. Murray AbrahamStalin
Christopher PlummerViktor Abakumov
Robert PowellGleb Nershin
Victor GarberLew Rubin
Dominic RaackeNikolaj Schtschagow
Günther Maria HalmerWladimir Tschelnow
Coraly ZahoneroClara Makaraguine
Heath LambertsMajor Shikin
David Hewlett'Ruska' Rostislav
Alexandra StewartAletvina Makaraguine
Raf VallonePyotr Makaraguine
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Vernon DobtcheffRiyumin
Daniel EmilforkNikol
Corinne TouzetNadia Nerzhin
Valéria CavalliDottnara Volodine
Raymond CloutierGrigory Adamson
Ali GironSerafima Vitalyevna
Pascal GreggoryArthur Siromaka
Danute KristoNina
Jennifer MorehouseOlga
Rebecca PotokAlisa Fedorovna
Delphine RichSonia Sologdine
André RouyerPoskrebychev
Michel VolettiAlexei Velakovsky
Valery VolfRussian Officer
Gildor RoyShusterman
Robert JoyYakonov
Murray GronwallOskolupov
Louis NeginAndrei Potapov
Vlasta VranaPrincipal I. Gerasimovich
Don FrancksSpiridon
Christopher ThompsonAlexei Lansky
Marc de JongeRoitman
Jack LangedijkNedelashine
Tony Lo BiancoNikolai Galakhov
Stephane ZarovBoris
David FrancisDof
Kliment DenchevKliment
Ian MacDonaldChief Sergeant
Alexandra GoninOlenka
Isabelle JacquessionLyuda
Alexandra EhrlichZhenka
Robert HigdenKagan
Yan BrianDriver
Philippe JutteauMechanic
Anne GautierDinera
Stefan Elbaum
Denis Hecker
David Hemblen
Henry Czernyman in phonebooth (uncredited)
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