Arena
91 mins
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.
Lyudmila Kanagina
circus performer
Khosrov Abdullayev
juggler
Galina Shubarina
equilibrist
Yakov Shekhtman
fountain-man
Alla Dokuchayeva
Costume Design
Vladimir Kapitanovsky
Writer
Grigori Korenblyum
Sound
Lidiya Lysenkova
Editor
Nikolai Bolshakov
Director of Photography
Vladimir Kamskiy
Production Design