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The First Circle

The First Circle

Description: In post-World War II Russia, paranoid Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (F. Murray Abraham) unjustly imprisons legions of his fellow countrymen with the help of his brutally violent security head, Victor Abakumov (Christopher Plummer). When technologically gifted prisoners like Lew Rubin (Victor Garber) f… MORE
Genre: TV series
Awards: Gemini Award for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series
Initial Release: February 25, 1992
Director: Sheldon Larry
Nominations: Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, MORE
Screenplay: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, M. Charles Cohen

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