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The First Circle (1000) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 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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