Actor David ... Hemmings turned his back on acting for many years, preferring to work behind the cameras. But he returned to on-screen work in 2000 playing Cassius in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator.

The powerful general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes ...