

Arena
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.
Director(s)
Aleksandr Orlov
Samson Samsonov
Cast & crew

Igor Yasulovich
sad clown

Margarita Volodina
Masha

Adolf Dymsza
red clown

Gleb Strizhenov
stable attendant

Valentīns Skulme
white clown

Jānis Melderis
commandant
Pyotr Kvaskov
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Valentina Serova
red clown's wife
Oleg Panov
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Kazimir Zabulionis
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Willis Preymanis
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Igor Sirenko
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Lyudmila Kanagina
circus performer

Alla Budnitskaya
circus performer
Ruslan Spikhin
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Khosrov Abdullayev
juggler

Vladimir Grammatikov
circus performer

Yuri Gusev
german officer
Galina Shubarina
equilibrist
Yakov Shekhtman
fountain-man
Aleksandr Orlov
Mime

Oleg Izmailov
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Samson Samsonov
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