Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 24, 2012

Runtime

2h 30m

Genres

Drama

User Score

50%

Original Title

Julius Caesar

Production Companies

Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC

Director

Gregory Doran

Description

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