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.
Genre: Crime
Director: Sheldon Larry
Actors: David Hewlett, Dominic Raacke, F. Murray Abraham, Günther Maria Halmer, Raf Vallone, Robert Powell
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