Movie

Arena

★ 8.5/10 · 2 votes 1967 1h 31m Released

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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.

Cast

Margarita Volodina Masha Adolf Dymsza red clown Gleb Strizhenov stable attendant Valentīns Skulme white clown Jānis Melderis commandant P Pyotr Kvaskov