Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Margarita Volodina
Masha
Lead
Adolf Dymsza
red clown
Gleb Strizhenov
stable attendant
Valentīns Skulme
white clown
Jānis Melderis
commandant
PK
Pyotr Kvaskov
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Valentina Serova
red clown's wife
OP
Oleg Panov
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What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Samson Samsonov's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Arena is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
