The Aesthetic Features of the TV Version of 'The First Circle'

摘要

The following article addresses the Russian TV version of "The First Circle". The author analyzes the style of Gleb Panfilov's directing and the principle images and motifs of the series. The study demonstrates that the screen reality maintains the correlation of the Solzhenitsyn novel's aesthetics with the cultural history of Western Europe, in particular, with some types of characters of drama and romance, some space compositions of theatre of differentepochs.