Vittorio Sanipoli as Marcus Virilius Rufus.Carlo Ninchi as Marcus Licinius Crassus.Spartacus joins them and dies in battle, which turns into carnage for the slaves. Meanwhile, the rebels, unsettled in the absence of their leader, decide to attack the Roman troops. The unexpected defeat alarms the senate Crassus summons Spartacus and promises freedom for him and his followers. After recovering, Spartacus returns to his men and leads them in a victorious assault on Rufus's fortified camp. Wounded by Rufus's soldiers during a patrol, he takes refuge with Crassus's young daughter Sabina, who has fallen in love with him. When the gladiators begin a revolt, Spartacus becomes their leader and leaves Rome with them. Enlisted into Lentulus's gladiators, he attempts repeatedly to escape.
In 74 B.C., Spartacus, a Roman soldier of Thracian origins, is enslaved by Crassus after coming to the rescue of the beautiful slave Amytis. 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. Sins of Rome ( Italian: Spartaco) is a 1953 historical drama film directed by Riccardo Freda and loosely based on the life story of Spartacus.
