Spartacus

Spartacus (1926)

DramaHistory

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.

Director: Muhsin Ertuğrul

Casts

	Mykola Deinar as Spartacus
	Matvei Lyarov as Sulla, a Roman dictator
	Brodskaya as Valeria, Sulla's wife
	Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi as Oktomanus, a gladiator
	Osyp Merlatti as Meneniy, gladiator
	Serhii Minin as Artorix, a gladiator
	Vasyl Liudvynskyi as Spartacus’s brother
	O. Nazarova as Spartacus's mother
	Lisevitskaya as Mirtia, Spartacus's sister
	S. Shklyarskiy as Senator Catilina
	Anastasii Symonov as Senator Metrobiy
	A. Ostashevsky as Graniy, servant
	Borys Shelestov as Villing, servant
	Yakov Savchenko as Valeriy, doorman
	Aleksandr Denisov as Slave master
	B. Rakitin as Lentul, gladiator school headmaster
	Vasyl Kozenko as Crassus, a commander
	Georgiy Avenarius as
	Rza Afganli as (uncredited)

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