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The Inner Circle

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The Inner Circle	label	The Inner Circle
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The Inner Circle	comment	The Inner Circle (Ближний круг) is a 1991 Russian film by Andrei Konchalovsky based on the true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was the private film projectionist of Josef Stalin from 1939 until the dictator's death in 1953. 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 Sec chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.Tom Hulce plays Ivan Sanchin, Lolita Davidovich his wife Anastasia. With the exception of Bob Hoskins as NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria, most of the other characters (including Stalin) are played by Russian actors, e.g. Alexander Zbruyev as Josef Stalin.
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The Inner Circle / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Inner Circle / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Stalin. Despite his humble background, he's fascinated by theater, classical music, literature, and film.
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The Inner Circle / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Inner Circle / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: If a life of poverty and threat of arrest under Stalin's dictatorship wasn't already bad enough, there was also the very real threat of complete annihilation by Nazi Germany during World War II.
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The Inner Circle / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Inner Circle / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Lavrenti Beria, the feared sadistic director of the NKVD, has a bald pate.
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The Inner Circle / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
The Inner Circle / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Sanchin is invited to tea with Stalin and his ministers.
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The Inner Circle / int_5f70322e	type	Public Domain Soundtrack
The Inner Circle / int_5f70322e	comment	Public Domain Soundtrack: The songs "Shiroka strana moya rodnaya" and "Hello Country of Heroes" are heard, as well as excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" and Chopin's Waltz in C Sharp Minor.
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The Inner Circle / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Inner Circle / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Anastasia is forced into prostitution by Beria, only released when she gets pregnant and is no longer desirable to him. When she returns home to Ivan, she commits suicide by hanging herself.
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The Inner Circle / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
The Inner Circle / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: Anastasya is taken away from her husband to be Beria's mistress. In their one scene together, she's drunk and seems to be charmed by him and additionally, when she briefly sees her husband before they're separated, she doesn't seem overly distressed or claim she was raped, despite sex clearly having occurred. However, Beria is, historically, very well known to have been a prolific serial rapist and Anastasya later commits suicide rather than give birth to his child, having suffered extreme sanity slippage.
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The Inner Circle / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Inner Circle / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Stalin and Beria. Stalin seems friendly enough as long as you don't cross him in a real or imagined way that sets off his paranoia. Beria puts on a friendly front to win the confidence of the women he wants to seduce or rape.
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The Inner Circle / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
The Inner Circle / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Ivan imagines having a final conversation with Stalin as he strolls alone through bombed-out Moscow.
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The Inner Circle / int_a864d2d8	type	Commie Land
The Inner Circle / int_a864d2d8	comment	Commie Land: The film shows what life was like in Stalin's Russia quite accurately: a society where even skilled and educated people live in wretched, run-down shared apartments, with one kitchen and toilet for about a half-dozen households. And to make it worse, everyone lives in fear of being denounced by his neighbor to the authorities as a "spy" or "traitor", knowing that such an accusation can and will lead to arrest, torture, and even execution.
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The Inner Circle / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
The Inner Circle / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: The real-life account of Ivan Sanchin, Stalin's personal projector operator, though embellished for dramatic effect.
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The Inner Circle / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Inner Circle / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The cattle being herded into the Moscow slaughterhouse near Sanchin's apartment are symbols for a loyal Soviet population being led like obedient cattle to the slaughter by Stalin's regime
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	The Inner Circle	hasFeature	Films of 1990â€“1994 / int_ae8a838f
	The Inner Circle	hasFeature	Questionable Consent / int_ae8a838f

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