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1000 · 440 mins · Russian
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Directed by
Gleb Panfilov
Starring
Andrey Smirnov, Evgeniy Stychkin, Yana Esipovich, Aleksey Kolubkov, Galina Tyunina, Dmitriy Pevtsov

Set in a relatively comfortable Stalin‑era prison in the town of Marfino, the film follows a community of highly skilled prisoners who are compelled to conduct scientific research for the Soviet state. Their intellectual work and moral compromises reveal the paradox of survival under oppression, adapted from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel.

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