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.
Cast
- 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