Spartacus (1926)
December 7, 1926Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.

Mykola Deinar
Spartacus

Vasyl Liudvynskyi
Spartacus’s brother

Matviy Lyarov
Sulla, a Roman dictator

Brodska
Valeria, Sulla's wife

Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi
Oktomanus, a gladiator

Vasyl Kozenko
Crassus, a commander

Sergei Minin
Artorix, a gladiator

Vasiliy Kozenko
Crassus - Commander

Mykhailo Halperin
Writer

Heinrich Beisenherz
Art Direction

Marius Holdt
Cinematography

O. Merlatti
Meneniy - gladiator

Geo Shkurupii
Writer

Raffaello Giovagnoli
Novel

Aram Khachaturyan
Original Music Composer

Muhsin Ertuğrul
Director
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