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