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Writers (WGA):
Howard Fast (novel)
Robert Schenkkan (teleplay)
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Release Date:
18 April 2004 (USA) more
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Once a slave. Forever a legend.
Plot:
Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 5 nominations more
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"What's important isn't our living or our dying but this new thing we've reached, however briefly. A world without slaves…" more (37 total)

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Runtime:
174 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Dedicated to Sir Alan Bates (Agrippa), who died of cancer shortly after filming ended. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When it is revealed to Spartacus that his wife is pregnant he picks her up and yells, "I'm gonna have a son." This is obviously dubbed as his jaw fails to move at all more
Quotes:
Spartacus: I am not a king. I am something better. A free man. more
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Version of Spartacus (1960) more

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"What's important isn't our living or our dying but this new thing we've reached, however briefly. A world without slaves…", 15 June 2008
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The TV miniseries opens in Gaul 72 B.C. where the Romans put an end to Varinia's world making her a slave… Meanwhile Spartacus (Goran Visnjic) is free from the hell of the gold mines of Egypt to be trained as gladiator in the establishment of Lentulus Batiatus (Ian McNeice).

Most of "Spartacus" contains many of the miniseries' best moments… The operation of the gladiatorial school and its training program is impressive and expressive; the apprentice gladiators are treated like special animals, tutored to perform in the arena as spectator-sport-killers, and occasionally rewarded with a woman in their cells…

In this degrading manner Spartacus meets Varinia (Rhona Mitra) and it is his love for her and his hatred for his captors that brings about his decision to escape and lead revolt…

Particularly effective is the scene in which Marcus Crassus (Angus Macfadyen) and his bored entourage visit the establishment and request for a private showing at its best of a pair of Thracians… Crassus wanted to see courage, passion, and above all finality…

Spartacus is matched with the African Draba in a fight to the death, but Draba (maybe rather than live as a beast) chooses to die as a man, attacking his spectators…

The scene summarizes the iniquity of the situation, the cruelty of bondage, and the subsequent uprising of gladiators in Capua becomes a triumph easy to understand…

Director Robert Donrhelm did a decent job, carrying the grandeur and the decay of ancient Rome…

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