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.
Margarita Volodina
Adolf Dymsza
Gleb Strizhenov
Valentins Skulme
Jānis Melderis
Pyotr Kvaskov
Valentina Serova
Oleg Panov
Kazimir Zabulionis
Willis Preymanis
Igor Sirenko
Lyudmila Kanagina
Alla Budnitskaya
Igor Yasulovich
Ruslan Spikhin
Khosrov Abdullayev
Vladimir Grammatikov
Yuri Gusev
Galina Shubarina
Yakov Shekhtman
Aleksandr Orlov