Spartacus

Spartacus

1926 · Drama, History

The owner of the gladiator school buys two slaves, the Thracian Spartacus and the Gaul Artorix. During the first fight in the arena, Spartacus wins over the Colloseum audience and his freedom. When freed from gladiator slavery, Spartacus calls slaves and Rome plebs for a rebel. The dictator Sulla dies. Spartacus and rebellious slaves lay out a camp near Vesuvius. The Roman commander Crassus is unable to take Spartacus’s camp by storm, so he lays siege to it. Spartacus is betrayed; he dies with his friend Artorix in a battle. The film is based on Raffaello Giovagnoli’s novel of the same name.

Directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul · Written by Mykhailo Halperin

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Mykola Deinar Spartacus
Matvei Lyarov Sulla, a Roman dictator
Brodskaya Valeria, Sulla's wife
Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi Oktomanus, a gladiator
Osyp Merlatti Meneniy, gladiator
Serhii Minin Artorix, a gladiator
Vasyl Liudvynskyi Spartacus’s brother
O. Nazarova Spartacus's mother
Lisevitskaya Mirtia, Spartacus's sister
S. Shklyarskiy Senator Catilina
Anastasii Symonov Senator Metrobiy
A. Ostashevsky Graniy, servant

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