Arena

Overview

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.

Directed by Samson Samsonov

Top cast

Margarita Volodina

Masha

Adolf Dymsza

red clown

Gleb Strizhenov

stable attendant

Valentīns Skulme

white clown

Jānis Melderis

commandant

P

Pyotr Kvaskov

Valentina Serova

red clown's wife

O

Oleg Panov

K

Kazimir Zabulionis

W

Willis Preymanis

I

Igor Sirenko

L

Lyudmila Kanagina

circus performer

Alla Budnitskaya

circus performer

Igor Yasulovich

sad clown

R

Ruslan Spikhin

K

Khosrov Abdullayev

juggler

Vladimir Grammatikov

circus performer

Yuri Gusev

german officer

G

Galina Shubarina

equilibrist

Y

Yakov Shekhtman

fountain-man

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