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Arena

Aug 30, 1967
1h 31m
★ 7.0

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.

Genres

Drama
History
War

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Margarita Volodina

Masha

Margarita Volodina

Adolf Dymsza

red clown

Adolf Dymsza

Gleb Strizhenov

stable attendant

Gleb Strizhenov

Valentīns Skulme

white clown

Valentīns Skulme

Jānis Melderis

commandant

Jānis Melderis

Pyotr Kvaskov

Pyotr Kvaskov

Valentina Serova

red clown's wife

Valentina Serova

Oleg Panov

Oleg Panov

Kazimir Zabulionis

Kazimir Zabulionis

Willis Preymanis

Willis Preymanis

Igor Sirenko

Igor Sirenko

Lyudmila Kanagina

circus performer

Lyudmila Kanagina

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