Eroticism – Still Images and Gifs
"By keeping all of the romance here chastely within the boundaries of Soviet censors, Yakobson achieves the reverse, a heightened eroticism. We never see the consummation or even foreplay, just the intensity of longing building on itself between these two couples, one passionate and noble, the other hedonistic with an appetite for carnal pleasures and raw power. The sex scenes in Yakobson’s Spartacus are so effective in this regard that even 1950s Hollywood, under the thumb of the Hollywood decency code, would have marveled at how far Yakobson went with innuendo in Spartacus."