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Storyline

The performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar comes to an end and the performers are rewarded with rapturous applause. The lights go out; the actors leave the stage and return to their cells. They are all inmates of the Roman maximum security prison Rebibbia. One of them comments: ‘Ever since I discovered art this cell has truly become a prison’. Filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani spent six months following rehearsals for this stage production; their film demonstrates how the universality of Shakespeare’s language helps the actors to understand their roles and immerse themselves in the bard’s interplay of friendship and betrayal, power, dishonesty and violence.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2012
Competition
BFI London Film Festival 2012
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2012
Horizons
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2012
Zabaltegi Perlas
Busan International Film Festival 2012
World Cinema

Berlinale Awards 2012
Best Film - Golden Bear
David di Donatello Awards 2012
Best film, Best director, Best production, Best editor, Best Live Sound Engineer (Benito Alchimede and Brando Mosca)
European Film Awards (EFA) 2012
Nominated: Best European Film, Best European Director, Best European Editor (Roberto Perpignani)

Releases

Belgium (17 of October 2012)
Greece (4 of October 2012)
Netherlands (30 of August 2012)
Italy (2 of March 2012)