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Arena

Arena

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 30, 1967

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama, History, War

Original Title

Арена

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Director

Samson Samsonov

Description

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.