Arena
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 Volodinaas MashaAdolf Dymszaas red clownGleb Strizhenovas stable attendantValentīns Skulmeas white clownJānis Melderisas commandantPyotr KvaskovValentina Serovaas red clown's wifeOleg PanovKazimir ZabulionisWillis PreymanisIgor SirenkoLyudmila Kanaginaas circus performerAlla Budnitskayaas circus performerIgor Yasulovichas sad clownRuslan SpikhinKhosrov Abdullayevas jugglerVladimir Grammatikovas circus performerYuri Gusevas german officerGalina Shubarinaas equilibristYakov Shekhtmanas fountain-manAleksandr Orlovas MimeOleg Izmaylov