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Julius Caesar (2012)

Julius Caesar (2012)

Drama
Release Date: 2012, June 24
Directors: Gregory Doran
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC
Cast: Paterson Joseph, Ray Fearon, Ann Ogbomo, Jeffery Kissoon, Cyril Nri, Adjoa Andoh, Simon Manyonda, Ivanno Jeremiah

Overview:

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