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The Arena

The Arena

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 28, 2001

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Action

User Score

31%

Original Title

The Arena

Production Companies

Bazelevs Production, Concorde-New Horizons

Director

Timur Bekmambetov

Description

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.