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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.

1967 |1h 31m |  Drama, History, War

Cast

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Margarita Volodina

Masha

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Adolf Dymsza

red clown

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Gleb Strizhenov

stable attendant

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Valentins Skulme

white clown

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Jānis Melderis

commandant

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Valentina Serova

red clown's wife

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Alla Budnitskaya

circus performer

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Igor Yasulovich

sad clown

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Vladimir Grammatikov

circus performer

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Yuri Gusev

german officer

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Status

Released

Language

Russian

Budget

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