Movie·1967·1h 31m
Arena
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Russian
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The Story
Original title: Арена
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.
Written By
Vladimir Kapitanovskiy
Cinematography
Mikhail Suslov
Music
Eduard Artemyev
Editor
Lidiya Lysenkova
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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// cast
Cast
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
Vladimir Grammatikov
circus performer
Yuri Gusev
german officer
// crew
Crew
Samson Samsonov
Director, Writer
Vladimir Kapitanovskiy
Writer
Lidiya Lysenkova
Editor
Mikhail Suslov
Director of Photography
Nikolai Bolshakov
Director of Photography
Eduard Artemyev
Original Music Composer
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