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.
Released in 1992, The First Circle is a thriller and tv movie film from Technisonor (France). It was directed by Sheldon Larry and written by Marcel Jullian and M. Charles Cohen. The cast is led by Laurent Malet, F. Murray Abraham, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell and Victor Garber. With a runtime of 3h 0m, the film averages 5.0/10 across 8 TMDB ratings.
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