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.
Unfortunately the movie The First Circle is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Sheldon Larry | Director |
| Writing | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | Novel |
| Writing | Marcel Jullian | Screenplay |
| Writing | M. Charles Cohen | Screenplay |
