Julius Caesar

The story

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

P Paterson JosephBrutus J Jeffery KissoonJulius Caesar I Ivanno JeremiahOctavius C Cyril NriCassius R Ray FearonMark Anthony A Adjoa AndohPortia A Ann OgbomoCalpurnia S Simon ManyondaLucius