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

• Gregory DoranDirector

• Paterson JosephBrutus
• Jeffery KissoonJulius Caesar
• Ivanno JeremiahOctavius
• Cyril NriCassius
• Ray FearonMark Anthony
• Adjoa AndohPortia
• Ann OgbomoCalpurnia
• Simon ManyondaLucius