Arena (1967)
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.
Director: Samson Samsonov
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Margarita Volodina as Masha |
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Adolf Dymsza as red clown |
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Gleb Strizhenov as stable attendant |
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Valentīns Skulme as white clown |
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Jānis Melderis as commandant |
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Pyotr Kvaskov as |
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Valentina Serova as red clown's wife |
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Oleg Panov as |
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Kazimir Zabulionis as |
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Willis Preymanis as |
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Igor Sirenko as |
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Lyudmila Kanagina as circus performer |
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Alla Budnitskaya as circus performer |
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Igor Yasulovich as sad clown |
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Ruslan Spikhin as |
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Khosrov Abdullayev as juggler |
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Vladimir Grammatikov as circus performer |
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Yuri Gusev as german officer |
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Galina Shubarina as equilibrist |
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Yakov Shekhtman as fountain-man |
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Aleksandr Orlov as Mime |
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Oleg Izmaylov as |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alla Dokuchayeva | Costume Design |
| Directing | Samson Samsonov | Director |
| Writing | Samson Samsonov | Writer |
| Writing | Vladimir Kapitanovskiy | Writer |
| Sound | Grigori Korenblyum | Sound |
| Editing | Lidiya Lysenkova | Editor |
| Camera | Mikhail Suslov | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Nikolai Bolshakov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Boris Blank | Production Design |
| Art | Vladimir Kamskiy | Production Design |
| Sound | Eduard Artemyev | Original Music Composer |
