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.
Laurent Malet
Innokenty Volodin
F. Murray Abraham
Stalin
Christopher Plummer
Viktor Abakumov
Robert Powell
Gleb Nershin
Victor Garber
Lew Rubin
Dominic Raacke
Nikolaj Schtschagow
Günther Maria Halmer
Wladimir Tschelnow
Coraly Zahonero
Clara Makaraguine
Heath Lamberts
Major Shikin
David Hewlett
'Ruska' Rostislav
Alexandra Stewart
Aletvina Makaraguine
Raf Vallone
Pyotr Makaraguine
The Phoney War
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
This Gun for Hire
The Flight
Night Train to Munich
Land of the Blind
The Escapist
Kept Woman
Convict
Nowhere to Run
The Experiment
When The Motherland Is Knocking At Your Door
Glimpses of the Outskirts
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People
49th Parallel
Lockdown
Bad Sister
Girl in the Basement
If There Be Thorns