The Inner Circle
The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin’s private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator’s death. Told from Sanchin’s view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his “Master” despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife’s affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand. Written by Martin H. Booda
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Actors: Aleksandr Filippenko, Aleksandr Zbruev, Bess Meyer, Bob Hoskins, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Irina Kupchenko, Lolita Davidovich, Tom Hulce, Vladimir Timofeev
Country: Italy, Soviet Union, USA