Actors: Goran Visnjic,Alan Bates,Angus Macfadyen,Rhona Mitra,Ian McNeice,James Frain,Henry Simmons,Ross Kemp,Ben Cross,Paul Kynman,Paul Telfer,Chris Jarman,Georgina Rylance,Stuart Bunce,Hristo Shopov
Genre: Year: 2004
Imdb: click here "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…"
