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Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

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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Sun 24 Jun 2012 20:00 BBC Four

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Credits

Author
William Shakespeare
Brutus
Paterson Joseph
Cassius
Cyril Nri
Julius Caesar
Jeffery Kissoon
Mark Antony
Ray Fearon
Octavius
Ivanno Jeremiah
Portia
Adjoa Andoh
Casca
Joseph Mydell
Lucius
Simon Manyonda
Soothsayer
Theo Ogundipe
Cicero
Ricky Fearon
Decius Brutus
Andrew French
Metellus Cimber
Mark Theodore
Trebonius
Segun Akingbola
Calpurnia
Ann Ogbomo
Caius Ligarius
Ewart James Walters
Artemidorus
Mark Ebulue
Marullus
Marcus Griffiths
Cinna the Conspirator
Chinna Wodu
Cinna the Poet
Jude Owusu
Caesar's servant
Samantha Lawson
Director
Gregory Doran
Producer
John Wyver

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