The Arena (2001)
In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens – glorified in the deadly spectacle of The Arena. Stolen from their homelands, the fiery Druid maiden Bodicia, exotic slave girl Jessemina, and the powerful barbarian Flavius, are pitted against each other as gladiators by the sadistic Roman Governor Timarchus. Banished by Caesar, Timarchus unleashes his frustration on his gladiators, staging extravagant spectacles of combat, orgy and death. In a violent world where only the strong survive, love and hate, life and death, are separated by an instant.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
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Karen McDougal as Jessemina |
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Lisa Dergan as Bodicia |
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Olga Sutulova as Livia |
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Yuliya Chicherina as Diedra |
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Viktor Verzhbitskiy as |
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Anatoliy Mambetov as |
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Алексей Осипов as |
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Kirill Ulyanov as |
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Gabriel Vorobyov as |
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Natalya Surkova as |
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Aleksey Dedov as |
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Igor Botvin as |
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Ernst Romanov as |
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Boris Birman as |
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Dmitri Karpov as |
| Production | Roger Corman | Producer |
| Directing | Timur Bekmambetov | Director |
| Writing | John William Corrington | Writer |
| Production | Sergey Livnev | Producer |
| Editing | Natalya Kucherenko | Editor |
| Camera | Ulugbek Khamraev | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Peter Orloff | Music |
| Production | Damian Akhavi | Producer |
| Sound | Alexander Voitinsky | Music |
| Costume & Make-Up | Varvara Avdyushko | Costume Design |
| Sound | Pavel Karmanov | Music |
| Production | Vadim Sokolovsky | Producer |
| Editing | Dmitry Kiselev | Editor |
| Directing | Galla Kapitskaya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Andrey Peshekhodko | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Roman Boyko | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Igor Panin | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Sergey Katorzhenko | Stunt Coordinator |
| Sound | David Kitchens | Sound Supervisor |