Arena

IMDb 7.0 1967 91 min DramaHistoryWar

Director

Samson Samsonov

Country

SU

Plot Summary

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