Spartacus

Release Date: 1926-12-07

Overview: 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.

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Cast

Mykola Deinar

as Spartacus

Matviy Lyarov

as Sulla, a Roman dictator

Brodskaya

as Valeria, Sulla's wife

Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi

as Oktomanus, a gladiator

Osyp Merlatti

as Meneniy, gladiator