The First Circle

Year: 1000

Runtime: 440 mins

Language: Russian

Director: Gleb Panfilov

Drama

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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