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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.

Top Cast

  • Margarita Volodina

    Margarita Volodina

    Masha

  • Adolf Dymsza

    Adolf Dymsza

    red clown

  • Gleb Strizhenov

    Gleb Strizhenov

    stable attendant

  • Valentīns Skulme

    Valentīns Skulme

    white clown

  • Jānis Melderis

    Jānis Melderis

    commandant

  • Pyotr Kvaskov

    Pyotr Kvaskov

  • Valentina Serova

    Valentina Serova

    red clown's wife

  • Oleg Panov

    Oleg Panov

  • Kazimir Zabulionis

    Kazimir Zabulionis

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.

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