Spartacus

Spartacus (1926) is a drama, history film directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul.

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.

Cast

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