Arena (1967)

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.

Cast

Margarita Volodina

Masha

Adolf Dymsza

red clown

Gleb Strizhenov

stable attendant

Valentīns Skulme

white clown

Jānis Melderis

commandant

Pyotr Kvaskov