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
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
The Phoney War
The Flight
49th Parallel
Night Train to Munich
The Escapist
We Go In at Dawn
The Experiment
Lockdown
Kept Woman
Twisted
This Gun for Hire
Detrás de la mentira
Glimpses of the Outskirts
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Nowhere to Run
Dead of Winter
Bad Sister
Girl in the Basement