The Inner Circle 1991 The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalins private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictators death Told from Sanchins 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 wifes affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand