Film

Arena

1967 · 1h 31m · Drama · History · War

IMDb

5.1

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.

Margarita Volodina

Masha

Adolf Dymsza

red clown

Gleb Strizhenov

stable attendant

Valentīns Skulme

white clown

Jānis Melderis

commandant

Pyotr Kvaskov

Valentina Serova

red clown's wife

Oleg Panov

Kazimir Zabulionis

Willis Preymanis

Igor Sirenko

Lyudmila Kanagina

circus performer

Alla Budnitskaya

circus performer

Igor Yasulovich

sad clown

Ruslan Spikhin

Khosrov Abdullayev

juggler

• Samson SamsonovWriter · Director
• Vladimir KapitanovskiyWriter
• Mikhail SuslovDirector of Photography
• Nikolai BolshakovDirector of Photography
• Eduard ArtemyevOriginal Music Composer
• Lidiya LysenkovaEditor

Release date

August 30, 1967

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama, History, War

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