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