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Certificate PG

Cast Kirk Douglas Jean Simmons Peter Ustinov

Directors Stanley Kubrick

Screenwriters Howard Fast Dalton Trumbo

Running Time 197 minutes

Spartacus
Kubrick's sole 'director-for-hire' effort

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Plot
Spartacus, a Thracian slave, refuses to allow himself to become the animal the Roman civilization would have him be. His love for Varinia, a slave girl, coupled with his revulsion at the crushing treatment and callous murders of his fellow slaves, ignite in his breast a passion for freedom. They escape and joined by more runaways, and swell to become a vast army. Contrasted with their impassioned plans for open rebellion are the cool, calculating minds of their Roman adversaries Crassus, Grachus

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