The First Circle 1992

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:

Robert Powell
Gleb Nershin 

Dominic Raacke
Nikolaj Schtschagow 

Günther Maria Halmer
Wladimir Tschelnow 

F. Murray Abraham
Stalin 

David Hewlett
'Ruska' Rostislav 

Raf Vallone
Pyotr Makaraguine