In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens – glorified in the deadly spectacle of The Arena. Stolen from their homelands, the fiery Druid maiden Bodicia, exotic slave girl Jessemina, and the powerful barbarian Flavius, are pitted against each other as gladiators by the sadistic Roman Governor Timarchus. Banished by Caesar, Timarchus unleashes his frustration on his gladiators, staging extravagant spectacles of combat, orgy and death. In a violent world where only the strong survive, love and hate, life and death, are separated by an instant.
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Karen McDougal
Jessemina
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Lisa Dergan
Bodicia
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Olga Sutulova
Livia
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Yuliya Chicherina
Diedra
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Viktor Verzhbitskiy
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Anatoliy Mambetov
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Aleksey Osipov
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Двое из ларца
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Kirill Ulyanov
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Gabriel Vorobyov
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Philipp Traum
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Natalya Surkova
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Aleksey Dedov
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Igor Botvin
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Timur Bekmambetov Director · John William Corrington Writer Ulugbek Khamraev Cinematographer
United States release August 28, 2001 · Produced in Russia, United States · Production Concorde-New Horizons
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Bazelevs
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Concorde-New Horizons
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Russia · United States
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English
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English
Release dates
United States · August 28, 2001
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