Cesare deve morire | B3 Film Festival

Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani.
After the performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," the actors, inmates of a high-security prison, return to their cells and realize how art has turned their prison cells into a true confinement, while Paolo and Vittorio Taviani spent six months documenting the rehearsals, highlighting the parallels between the classical drama and the modern world.
Fokus Italien/ Focus Italy.

The performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar comes to an end and the performers are rewarded with rapturous rounds of 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. This documentary does not dwell on the crimes these men have committed in their ‘real’ lives; rather, it draws parallels between this classical drama and the world of today, describes the commitment displayed by all those involved, and shows how their personal hopes and fears also flow into the performance.
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