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The First Circle is a film of genre Drama directed by Aleksander Ford with Elżbieta Czyżewska
The First Circle (1973)
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Add to a movie listThe First Circle (Danish: Den første kreds) is a 1973 English-language drama film directed by Aleksander Ford and starring Gunther Malzacher. It is an adaptation of the novel In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The film was a co-production between Danish and West German companies.
Actors
Elżbieta Czyżewska
(Simochka)
Peter Steen
(Volodin)
Ole Ernst
(Doronin)
Vera Tschechowa
Preben Neergaard
(Bobynin)
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