Arena
Арена
Release: 1967-08-30
·Runtime: 91m
·★ 7.0
Drama
History
War
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Jānis Melderis
as commandant
Valentina Serova
as red clown's wife
Alla Budnitskaya
as circus performer
Gleb Strizhenov
as stable attendant
Valentīns Skulme
as white clown
Igor Yasulovich
as sad clown
Yuri Gusev
as german officer
Oleg Izmailov
Margarita Volodina
as Masha
Adolf Dymsza
as red clown
Vladimir Grammatikov
as circus performer
