Julius Caesar

Film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2012 production of Shakespeare's fast-moving thriller. A vivid story about a struggle for democracy, Julius Caesar is also a love story between two men united by an explosive act of political violence. The setting is a modern African state in which the tyrant Caesar is about to seize power. Cassius persuades Brutus to join the conspirators plotting an assassination. Featuring a distinguished cast of black actors, the film is shot on location and in the RSC's theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon

Cast

Paterson Joseph Brutus Jeffery Kissoon Julius Caesar Ivanno Jeremiah Octavius Cyril Nri Cassius Ray Fearon Mark Anthony Adjoa Andoh Portia Ann Ogbomo Calpurnia Simon Manyonda Lucius

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