The White Circle (Scripted, Russian)
Genres: Drama
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2006-03-09
Ended: 2006-03-09
Network: Россия 1
Country: RU
Airs on: Thursday
Runtime: 45 minutes
The White Circle is a TV-series based on the autobiographical book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is set in 1949-1950, in Moscow and in a prison-laboratory in the town of Marfino, near Moscow. Gleb Nerzhin (Mironov) is arrested and imprisoned in "Sharashka" in Mafrino, a prison-laboratory for secret research. His life has a value due to his degree in mathematics. He is involved in making a telephone bug, a research program which is supervised by Stalin.