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Arena

(1967)

August 30, 1967 1h 31m
70%
TMDB Score

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.

Samson Samsonov

Director

Top Billed Cast

MV

Margarita Volodina

Masha

AD

Adolf Dymsza

red clown

GS

Gleb Strizhenov

stable attendant

VS

Valentīns Skulme

white clown

JM

Jānis Melderis

commandant

PK

Pyotr Kvaskov

VS

Valentina Serova

red clown's wife

OP

Oleg Panov

KZ

Kazimir Zabulionis

WP

Willis Preymanis