The Inner Circle

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.

The Inner Circle is a 1991 drama mystery movie directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, starring Bob Hoskins, Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovich. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.0/10 from 2,307 votes and runs 2h 17m.