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Arena (1967)

Arena (1967)

Drama History War
Release Date: 1967, August 30
Directors: Samson Samsonov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Igor Yasulovich, Vladimir Grammatikov, Alla Budnitskaya, Yuri Gusev, Valentīns Skulme, Jānis Melderis, Gleb Strizhenov, Margarita Volodina, Valentina Serova, Adolf Dymsza, Khosrov Abdullayev, Lyudmila Kanagina

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.

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