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Spartacus

Year:

2004

Duration:

174 min

Genres:

Action | Drama | History

IMDB rate:

6.8

Director:

Robert Dornhelm

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 5 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2004-04-18

Filming Locations: Sofia, Bulgaria

Cast

Actor

Character

Rhona Mitra

Spartacus

Goran Visnjic

Spartacus

Alan Bates

Antonius Agrippa

Angus Macfadyen

Marcus Crassus

Ian McNeice

Lentulus Batiatus

James Frain

David

Henry Simmons

Draba

Ross Kemp

Cinna

Ben Cross

Titus Glabrus

Paul Kynman

Crixus

Paul Telfer

Gannicus

Chris Jarman

Nordo

Georgina Rylance

Helena

Stuart Bunce

Cornelius Lucius

Hristo Shopov

Maecenus

Jack Huston

Flavius

Matthew Thrift

Caius

Simon Paisley Day

Orsino

George Calil

Pompey

Richard Dillane

Julius Caesar

Niall Refoy

Publius Maximus

Valentin Ganev

Marcus Servius

Jane Thorne

Demeter

Jalaal Hartley

Soldier at Senate

Assen Blatechki

Polymus

Krasimir Kutzoparov

Centurion #4 (as Krassimir Kotzuparov)

Kiril Efremov

Commodus

Panayot Tzanev

Centurion #2

Dobrin Dosev

Mummius (as Dobrin Dossev)

Stefan Shterev

Head Overseer

George Zlatarev

Jason (as Georgy Zlatarev)

Maxim Gentchev

Trainer (as Maxim Genchev)

Alexander Preslavski

Caiaphus

Evgeniy Kuznetsov

Another Gaul (as Evgenii Kuznetsov)

Vladimir Kolev

Centurion #1

Petar Hristov

Roman Soldier #1

Lyubomir Neikov

Cook

Grozdan Daskalov

Field Slave #1

Evgeniya Radilova

Lucia

Dimiter Martinov

Messenger #4 (as Dimitar Martinov)

Hristo Mitzkov

Scout #1

Iliya Raev

Senator #1 (as Ilia Raev)

Sava Georgiev

Senator #2

Nikolay Borisov

Quintis (as Nickolay Borissov)

Dimitrina Zhivkova

Female Slave

Valentin Tanev

Wine Vendor

Nickolay Russev

Spartacus's Father

Tzvetan Philipov

Teenage Spartacus

Nikolai Urumov

Slave Auctioneer (as Nickolay Urumov)

Plamen Manassiev

Messenger #3 (as Plamen Manasiev)

Ilka Zafirova

Old Woman

Julian Vergov

Scout #2

Cvetomir Ivanov

Roman Soldier

Petar Kirilov

Gladiator

Atanas Srebrev

Centurion #3

Raicho Vasilev

Gladiator (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Alan Bates last performance. Alan Bates passed away on December 27, 2003 at age 69.

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A noticeable piece of dramatic license has Spartacus's son born exactly at the moment Spartacus dies in battle. As Marcus Crassus and Pompey Magnus are proclaimed co-consuls, the announcer calls Rome an Empire, when it was still an Republic at the time.

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The plot, setting and costumes are nearly identical to those of the Stanley Kubrick 1960 version; however, this adaptation follows Howard Fast's novel more closely than does Kubrick's film. (Two of the more noticeable omissions of the new adaptation are the "I am Spartacus!" scene and Spartacus and his wife's reunion after battle.) The miniseries is shown as a story as a woman narrates to her son, who are later revealed to be Spartacus's wife and son.

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Goofs

When Spartacus is fighting in the arena with sword and shield he has his sword in his right hand and shield in his left, except in one brief shot where the film was obviously reversed.

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In the charge that precipitates the climactic battle, the legionaries of the Roman front line are shown advancing with shields in the left hand, swords in the right. Except for one in the lower foreground: his right hand is empty, he is advancing into combat with only a shield. As soon as he makes contact with a member of the rebel army, he falls on his back even though he hasn't actually been attacked yet.

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At the end Caesar proposes Crassus and Pompeius made "Co-Consuls". Consuls were *always* elected in pairs in the Roman Republic, and they were *elected*, not chosen. When Agrippa says "Never in the history of the Republic" he's cut off before he can say what we think he says, but it's not true if he were going to say that Consuls never came in pairs. They always did, even in Imperial times.

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Quotes

Spartacus: I am not a king. I am something better. A free man.

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Spartacus: Live Draba - that is what life is for.

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Crixus: Fighting Romans is like fighting a grist mill. The stone keeps on turning. No matter how many times you attack it, in the end it grinds you down to dust.

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