Gladiator-Maximus

In the year 180 d. C. Maximum General Tenth Hispanic Meridio leads the Roman army to an important victory over the Germanic tribes near Vindobona , ending a long war in the limes of the Roman Empire . Thus earns the esteem of the elderly and sick Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who despite having a child , Comfortable, decides that his death is the general who holds temporal power until the Roman senate finally assume the government of the empire. When his father announces his decision , Comfortable kills his father in a fit of rage and power blocks . Comfortable try to win the loyalty of Maximus, but the military is aware of what has happened . At that time the general is betrayed by his friend, Quintus, who reluctantly instructs the Praetorian to run him and his family in Hispania . Max gets rid of his tormentors and begins the return to your home at full speed, but not in time to save his wife and son .
After burying them , Maximus is unconscious from exhaustion and pain of loss , when it falls into the hands of slave that moved him to Zucchabar in North Africa . There is bought by East and forced to fight as a gladiator in the arena. Meet and befriends Juba and Hagen, the first of which asks you to have faith and do not despair , you will finally meet his family in the afterlife.
Meanwhile, in Rome, Commodus becomes emperor and ordered to begin several months of games and gladiator fights . In Africa , Maximum proves a fierce gladiator , skilled in combat and born leader. Finally just being taken to fight in the Coliseum of Rome, where men are hired East to fight in a reenactment of the Battle of Zama . Hiding her face with a helmet, Maximum leads his fellow combatants and gets an unexpected victory that a public pleading for their lives are won. Impressed , Comfortable down to the beach to meet the fighters ordered the head to reveal his identity gladiator. This becomes , uncovering his face , and says, " My name Maximum Tenth Meridio , commander of the Armies of the North , General of the Felix Legions , loyal servant to the true emperor Marcus Aurelius , father to a murdered son , husband to a woman killed, and reach my vengeance in this life or the next . "
Later, Max , adored by the public, fight against undefeated gladiator Tigris of Gaul , which overcomes but respects life , against the wishes of Commodus . The mob thus baptizes " Maximum compassionate ' popularity soars and sees Comfortable and frustrated their attempts to kill the former general , for his death would make him lose the favor of the Roman people . After this fight the old servant of Maximus, Cicero , contacts him and tells him that his army is still loyal to him . Then Max begins to conspire against Comfortable with 's sister , Lucilla , who has always been in love with him, and Senator Gracchus, with the ultimate aim of reuniting with his army and complete his revenge by overthrowing and killing the emperor. However, Comfortable suspicion of treason being plotted against him and his sister threatens to kill his son if he does not reveal the whole conspiracy . During the attempted escape of Maximus, the Praetorian guard attacks Comfortable gladiator school , killing Hagen and East. Juba and the survivors are imprisoned , while Max makes it to the walls of the city through tunnels. There he discovers that he has fallen into a trap : Cicero is killed and captured him .
Desperate to kill Max and prove its greatness , Comfortable prepares a fight in the Coliseum against the popular gladiator. Before starting the battle, and knowing of their superiority in melee , the emperor stabbed in the back at Max . Despite being wounded during combat Maximum manage to disarm the emperor, who calls a spade a desperate Fifth, chief of his guard. He refuses to give it and orders his men to do the same . Comfortable then shows a stylus that had hidden under the armor, but Maximus, in a last effort , he holds the arm sticks it to the emperor in the throat and ends its life .
The Maximum dying , bleeding from the stab given him Comfortable , has a vision of his family in the afterlife. Fifth pronounce his name, and then asked Max as last wish to free their men and that Senator Graco is restored , then remember the words of Marcus Aurelius on the greatness of Rome. Then down in the sand and Lucilla rushes to his side. In his last vision before his death, is reunited with his family. Lucila honor his memory with a word and asked to carry his body to shoulder , which is removed from the sand by Graco and his fellow gladiators . At dusk , Juba buries in the sand of the Colosseum the two small figures that Maximum prayed to his wife and son and whispers, " Now we are free . We shall meet again . But not yet ... not yet