San Diego Italian Film Festival presents Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die) a striking film that blends documentary with scripted narration so well it is hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Directed by the famed Taviani Brothers (Padre, padrone, Night of the Shooting Stars), the film is shot on location in Rebibbia Prison, in Rome, Italy.
Synopsis:
What happens when a member of the Mafia is cast as Cesare in an Italian prison version of Julius Caesar? Who will live and who will die?
Every year in the high-security wing at Rome?s Rebibbia prison, professional actors and directors create moving theater with murderers, Mafia capos and other hardened criminals as their actors. This year, well-known theater director Fabio Cavalli is putting on Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, a story of over-reaching ambition, betrayal, and brotherhood ? not unlike the environment many of his ?actors? come from.
Cavalli puts the prisoners, many serving life terms, through their paces, and they grow into their parts, transformed by the experience and the surprising relevance of ancient Rome to their lives today in a Roman prison.
In Italian with English subtitles
Admission/Cost: $10, Members, Students and Military: $8
Location:
La Paloma Theatre
471 S. Coast Hwy. 101,
Encinitas, CA 92024
Thursday, March 13 - 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
Synopsis:
What happens when a member of the Mafia is cast as Cesare in an Italian prison version of Julius Caesar? Who will live and who will die?
Every year in the high-security wing at Rome?s Rebibbia prison, professional actors and directors create moving theater with murderers, Mafia capos and other hardened criminals as their actors. This year, well-known theater director Fabio Cavalli is putting on Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, a story of over-reaching ambition, betrayal, and brotherhood ? not unlike the environment many of his ?actors? come from.
Cavalli puts the prisoners, many serving life terms, through their paces, and they grow into their parts, transformed by the experience and the surprising relevance of ancient Rome to their lives today in a Roman prison.
In Italian with English subtitles
Admission/Cost: $10, Members, Students and Military: $8
Location:
La Paloma Theatre
471 S. Coast Hwy. 101,
Encinitas, CA 92024
Thursday, March 13 - 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
