Sins of Rome (1953)

Original title

Spartaco - Il gladiatore della Tracia

Directed by

Riccardo Freda

Genre

sword-and-sandal film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

The film follows Spartacus as he leads a slave revolt in ancient Rome. It shows his fight for freedom and the battles that follow.

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What happens

Sins of Rome (Italian: Spartaco) is a 1953 historical drama film directed by Riccardo Freda and loosely based on the life story of Spartacus. The rights of film's negatives and copies were bought by the producers of Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film Spartacus, as to prevent eventual new releases of the film that could have damaged the commercial outcome of Kubrick’s film; this resulted in Sins of Rome's withdrawal from market for about thirty years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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