Julius Caesar

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

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  Paterson Joseph

  Brutus
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  Jeffery Kissoon

  Julius Caesar
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  Ivanno Jeremiah

  Octavius
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  Cyril Nri

  Cassius
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  Ray Fearon

  Mark Anthony
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  Adjoa Andoh

  Portia
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  Ann Ogbomo

  Calpurnia
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  Simon Manyonda

  Lucius