Arena
(1967)
★ 8.5 IMDb · 2 votes
Year: 1967
Runtime: 91 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Самсон Самсонов
Cast: Маргарита Володина, Adolf Dymsza, Глеб Стриженов, Валентинс Скулме, Янис Мелдерис, Pyotr Kvaskov, Валентина Серова, Олег Панов, Kazimir Zabulionis, Willis Preymanis
Plot
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.