Arena

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Samson Samsonov

Writers

Samson Samsonov, Vladimir Kapitanovskiy

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

Release date

30 August 1967

Ensemble

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