Friends don't let friends become tyrants — except when they do, with knives.
Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March.
Acting
Christoph Bantzer's Brutus: all tortured intellect, zero chill.
Production
Weirdly 80s costumes that somehow work? Bold choices were made.
Director
Michael Bogdanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1988 West German TV adaptation was part of a boom of European Shakespeare films that treated the Bard with punk-rock irreverence.
The Ides of March became pop-culture shorthand for betrayal after this play — thanks, Shakespeare, for making March 15 everyone's anxiety date.
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