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.
Top Cast
Margarita Volodina
Masha
Adolf Dymsza
red clown
Gleb Strizhenov
stable attendant
Valentīns Skulme
white clown
Jānis Melderis
commandant
Pyotr Kvaskov
Valentina Serova
red clown's wife
Oleg Panov
Kazimir Zabulionis
Willis Preymanis
Igor Sirenko
Lyudmila Kanagina
circus performer
Alla Budnitskaya
circus performer
Igor Yasulovich
sad clown
Ruslan Spikhin
Khosrov Abdullayev
juggler
Vladimir Grammatikov
circus performer
Yuri Gusev
german officer
Galina Shubarina
equilibrist
Yakov Shekhtman
fountain-man
