CESERE DEVE MORIRE directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Italy, 2012)
Brutus (Salvatore Striano) and Cassius (Cosimo Rega).
If you are of the ‘lock ’em up and throw away the key’ school of criminal justice then this movie will get you seriously hot under the collar.
The cast of the film of the play (Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) are convicted felons held in a high security Rebibbia prison in Rome. Paolo Taviani said, when accepting the Golden Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival, that he hoped that it would encourage people to view these men not just as hardened criminals but as human beings. It’s a controversial message as we’re not talking about petty misdemeanours here, many of the actors are lifers incarcerated for heinous Mafia-related crimes. Continue reading
