"Cesare Must Die"
Wednesday January 27 at 9:30pm at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Not Rated, 77 minutes, DVD
Italian with English subtitles
The captivating drama from legendary Italian auteurs Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Padre Padrone, Night of the Shooting Stars) follows real-life prison inmates as they rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare’s classic story of honor and power, Julius Caesar. The film opens at a packed theatre for the night of a premiere. At the play’s conclusion, the performers are rewarded with rapturous applause from the audience. But when the lights go out; the actors leave the stage and return to their cells – Caesar, Brutus and the others. They are all inmates of Rebibbia, a maximum-security jail on the outskirts of Rome, and many are serving life sentences for murder or mafia-linked crimes. Contains mature language.
For ticket information, see the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center website.