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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.
general audience, movie lovers
circus, concentration camp, horse, based on true story, black and white
Soviet Union
asMasha
asred clown
asstable attendant
aswhite clown
ascommandant
Cast
asred clown's wife
ascircus performer
assad clown
asjuggler
asgerman officer
asequilibrist
asfountain-man
asMime
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