The read
It runs long at 3h 0m.
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Sheldon LarryDirector
- M. Charles CohenScreenplay
- Marcel JullianScreenplay
- Gabriel YaredOriginal Music Composer
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
Themes
propagandawar propagandapolitical prisoners