The First Circle

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.

• Sheldon LarryDirector
• M. Charles CohenScreenplay
• Marcel JullianScreenplay
• Gabriel YaredOriginal Music Composer

• 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