THE FIRST CIRCLE
Directed by ALEXANDER FORD Screenplay by ALEXANDER FORD
It is often argued that the translations of the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn do not do him justice. Surely, though, he can never have been served as badly between covers as he is here on screen. This barbarous adaptation of his novel about a prison for Russian intellectuals prunes all the passion, humanity and immediacy from a story that, lacking them, becomes only a meager, melodramatic tale.
Made in Denmark by a Polish director, The First Circle was shot in some approximation of English,...
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