Released:
2012-06-24

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

Director:
Gregory Doran

Runtime:
2h 30min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Paterson Joseph
  as
  Brutus
• 
  Jeffery Kissoon
  as
  Julius Caesar
• 
  Ivanno Jeremiah
  as
  Octavius
• 
  Cyril Nri
  as
  Cassius
• 
  Ray Fearon
  as
  Mark Anthony