Arena

In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they are in the humiliating position of people forced to serve their enslavers. Many of them, recruited from camps and workhouses, were quite content with their lot. Only after a chain of subsequent events, the artists raise an uprising. Unarmed people are not able to resist the arrived guards. They die, but at the cost of their lives they regain their lost human dignity.

7

91 min

Cast

Margarita Volodina

as Masha

Adolf Dymsza

as red clown

Gleb Strizhenov

as stable attendant

Valentīns Skulme

as white clown

Jānis Melderis

as commandant

Pyotr Kvaskov

Valentina Serova

as red clown's wife

Oleg Panov

Kazimir Zabulionis

Willis Preymanis

Igor Sirenko

Lyudmila Kanagina

as circus performer

Alla Budnitskaya

as circus performer

Igor Yasulovich

as sad clown

Ruslan Spikhin

Khosrov Abdullayev

as juggler

Vladimir Grammatikov

as circus performer

Yuri Gusev

as german officer

Galina Shubarina

as equilibrist

Yakov Shekhtman

as fountain-man

Aleksandr Orlov

as Mime

Oleg Izmailov

Director

Samson Samsonov