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The First Circle

1977, Movie, NR, 189 mins

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s international best-seller vividly relocated Dante’s inferno to a Russian gulag in which Stalin is Satan and Russian penal colonies hell-holes. Unfotunately, the combination of Sheldon Larry's static direction and the cast's mishmash of accents keep this television adaptation from achieving the same power and profundity. When not purging dissidents, Stalin (F. Murray Abraham) focuses on developing a nuclear bomb and in 1949 relocates the Soviet... read more leave a comment
Year: 1977
Rated NR

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Cast
Robert Powell: Gleb Nerzhin
Victor Garber: Lew Rubin
F. Murray Abraham: Stalin
Christopher Plummer: Gen. Victor Abakumov
Dominick Raacke: Nicolaj Schtschagow
Heath Lamberts: The Major

 

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