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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.

Top Cast

  • Laurent Malet

    Laurent Malet

    Innokenty Volodin

  • F. Murray Abraham

    F. Murray Abraham

    Stalin

  • Christopher Plummer

    Christopher Plummer

    Viktor Abakumov

  • Robert Powell

    Robert Powell

    Gleb Nershin

  • Victor Garber

    Victor Garber

    Lew Rubin

  • Dominic Raacke

    Dominic Raacke

    Nikolaj Schtschagow

  • Günther Maria Halmer

    Günther Maria Halmer

    Wladimir Tschelnow

  • Coraly Zahonero

    Coraly Zahonero

    Clara Makaraguine

  • Heath Lamberts

    Heath Lamberts

    Major Shikin

Overview

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.

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