The First Circle2006DramaLoading watch options…The story is set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do research for the state. Based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.CreatorGleb PanfilovCastDmitriy PevtsovSergei KariakinAleksey KolubkovYana EsipovichEvgeniy Stychkin