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
Acting
Paterson Joseph's Brutus: dignity crumbling in real time.
Direction
Doran makes the African setting feel inevitable, not gimmicky.
Production
Theatre-to-location cuts that actually enhance tension.
Director
Gregory Doran
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Doran specifically chose an all-Black cast to echo post-colonial African power struggles, with costumes evoking military junta aesthetics from Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
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