
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

Margarita Volodina
Masha

Adolf Dymsza
red clown

Gleb Strizhenov
stable attendant

Valentīns Skulme
white clown

Jānis Melderis
commandant
Pyotr Kvaskov
Unknown

Valentina Serova
red clown's wife
Oleg Panov
Unknown
Kazimir Zabulionis
Unknown
Willis Preymanis
Unknown
Igor Sirenko
Unknown
Lyudmila Kanagina
circus performer

Alla Budnitskaya
circus performer

Igor Yasulovich
sad clown
Ruslan Spikhin
Unknown
Khosrov Abdullayev
juggler

Vladimir Grammatikov
circus performer

Yuri Gusev
german officer
Galina Shubarina
equilibrist
Yakov Shekhtman
fountain-man
Aleksandr Orlov
Mime

Oleg Izmailov
Unknown
Crew

Samson Samsonov
Director, Writer
Vladimir Kapitanovskiy
Writer
Lidiya Lysenkova
Editor

Mikhail Suslov
Director of Photography
Nikolai Bolshakov
Director of Photography
Vladimir Kamskiy
Production Design

Boris Blank
Production Design
Alla Dokuchayeva
Costume Design
Grigori Korenblyum
Sound

Eduard Artemyev
Original Music Composer
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