‘The Inner Circle’: Naivete Is No Excuse for Capitulating to Communism

Some choose not to listen to the warnings of communism’s treachery, but ignorance is no excuse to avoid the consequences.

Ivan Sanchin (Tom Hulce) is Stalin's personal projectionist, in "The Inner Circle." MovieStillsDB

PG-13 | 2h 17min | Drama | 1991

On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president and the Russian flag replaced the hammer-and-sickle flag. On that day, film distributors released “The Inner Circle,” set in the 1940s and ‘50s, exposing how Joseph Stalin’s communist dictatorship ravaged his people. This is a story of how those very people, including the once naive and brainwashed, started resisting the evil thrust upon them.