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The First Circle

The First Circle1992

★5.0180 minThrillerTV Movie

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

Writer

M. Charles Cohen Marcel Jullian

Score

Stars

Laurent Malet F. Murray Abraham Christopher Plummer

Cast51

Laurent Malet
as Innokenty Volodin
F. Murray Abraham
as Stalin
Christopher Plummer
as Viktor Abakumov
Robert Powell
as Gleb Nershin
Victor Garber
as Lew Rubin
Dominic Raacke
as Nikolaj Schtschagow
Günther Maria Halmer
as Wladimir Tschelnow
Coraly Zahonero
as Clara Makaraguine
Heath Lamberts
as Major Shikin
David Hewlett
as 'Ruska' Rostislav
Alexandra Stewart
as Aletvina Makaraguine
Raf Vallone
as Pyotr Makaraguine
Vernon Dobtcheff
as Riyumin
Daniel Emilfork
as Nikol
C
Corinne Touzet
as Nadia Nerzhin
Valéria Cavalli
as Dottnara Volodine
Raymond Cloutier
as Grigory Adamson
A
Ali Giron
as Serafima Vitalyevna
Pascal Greggory
as Arthur Siromaka
D
Danute Kristo
as Nina
Jennifer Morehouse
as Olga
Rebecca Potok
as Alisa Fedorovna
Delphine Rich
as Sonia Sologdine
André Rouyer
as Poskrebychev
Michel Voletti
as Alexei Velakovsky
V
Valery Volf
as Russian Officer
Gildor Roy
as Shusterman
Robert Joy
as Yakonov
M
Murray Gronwall
as Oskolupov
Louis Negin
as Andrei Potapov
Vlasta Vrana
as Principal I. Gerasimovich
Don Francks
as Spiridon
Christopher Thompson
as Alexei Lansky
Marc de Jonge
as Roitman
Jack Langedijk
as Nedelashine
Tony Lo Bianco
as Nikolai Galakhov
S
Stephane Zarov
as Boris
David Francis
as Dof
K
Kliment Denchev
as Kliment
I
Ian MacDonald
as Chief Sergeant
Alexandra Gonin
as Olenka
I
Isabelle Jacquession
as Lyuda
A
Alexandra Ehrlich
as Zhenka
Robert Higden
as Kagan
Yan Brian
as Driver
P
Philippe Jutteau
as Mechanic
Anne Gautier
as Dinera
S
Stefan Elbaum
D
Denis Hecker
David Hemblen
Henry Czerny
as man in phonebooth (uncredited)

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