The Inner Circle Movie Review 1991

Ivan Sanshin is a meek, married man working as a movie projectionist for the KGB in 1935 Russia. Sanshin is taken by the KGB to the Kremlin to show movies, primarily Hollywood features, to leader Joseph Stalin, a job he cannot discuss with anyone, even his wife. Under the spell of Stalin's personality, Sanshin sees only what he's told and overlooks the oppression and persecution of the times. Based on the life of the projectionist who served from 1935 until Stalin's death in 1953. Filmed on location at the Kremlin.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 122 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

True Stories, Russia/USSR, Red Scare, At the Movies

Screenplay

Andrei Konchalovsky, Anatoli Usov

Cast

Tom Hulce, Lolita (David) Davidovich, Bob Hoskins, Alexandre Zbruev, Maria Baranova, Feodor Chaliapin, Bess Meyer

Director

Andrei Konchalovsky

Music

Eduard Artemyev

Producer

Columbia Pictures