Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Tom Hulce | ... | Ivan Sanshin | |
Lolita Davidovich | ... | Anastasia | |
Bob Hoskins | ... | Beria | |
Aleksandr Zbruev | ... | Stalin | |
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. | ... | Prof. Bartnev | |
Bess Meyer | ... | Katya (16 years) | |
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Mariya Baranova | ... | Katya (10 years) |
Irina Kupchenko | ... | Directress | |
Vladimir Kuleshov | ... | Colonel Schelkasov | |
Vsevolod Larionov | ... | General Rumiantsev | |
Aleksandr Filippenko | ... | Major Khitrov | |
Evdokiya Germanova | ... | Governess | |
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Lyubov Matyushina | ... | Sonia Gubelman |
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Aleksandr Garin | ... | Vasily Morda |
Mariya Vinogradova | ... | Fedosia |
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 <booda@datasync.com>
There is a human tragedy of global scale - and those humans who sway this tragedy and who just turned out to be grains of sand under those wheels of history. To model what those people were in their good and weak producers and authors of "The Inner Circle" made an awesome cast in this movie - don't you agree that Bob Hoskins playing marshal Berija is worth seeing anyway. Lolita Davidovich's and great Russian actor Oleg Tabakov's was magnificent performance. And at last the central character - Ivan Sanshin - is utterly shrill figure and utterly potent message. Due to genius Tom Hulce who looks and acts completely and very naturally Russian - as I see it being Russian myself. No further words on Tom Hulce - he's just a great actor (though not a "star" in the industry, as I can guess) and every one of his works worth seeing. Even in his small role in "Parenthood" he's very convincing and dramatic - and in "The Inner Circle" he has a great material to work on... An obvious merit of this film - it is historically accurate (with exception of ahead-of-time tanks and probably something else) in details. Accurate Soviet uniforms in a Western movie is really very rare thing and in this film uniform of NKVD-officers looks authentic to the Soviet people like me... And the director's job is not bad at all - Konchalovsky has his peaks and faults and The Inner Circle is one of the peaks, I guess...