
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.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on a true story
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Music
Music by Eduard Artemyev
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Nikolay Bolshakov and Misha Suslov
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Vladimir KapitanovskiyWriter
- Samson SamsonovWriter
- Original title
- Арена
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 30, 1967
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union






























