Arena

August. 30,1967

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Drama History War

Keywords：

Based On True Story Black And White Circus

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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 as Masha

Adolf Dymsza as red clown

Gleb Strizhenov as stable attendant

Valentins Skulme as white clown

Valentina Serova as red clown's wife

Alla Budnitskaya as circus performer

Igor Yasulovich as sad clown

Vladimir Grammatikov as circus performer

Yuri Gusev as german officer

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