Aghast at having to live under his old enemy Julius Caesar, he tried to stab himself. His injured hand proved too weak for the job, and he fell to the floor, severely but not mortally wounded. His servants and physician rushed to him, at which point...

The picture shows real-life murderers and mafiosi from a high-security jail in Rome staging Shakesp-eare’s tragedy Julius Caesar, with their own personal dramas giving resonance to the play’s themes of betrayal and vengeance. “We hope that when the...

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani accepted the Golden Bear (the bear is the symbol of Berlin) for their documentary, which follows a group of inmates at Rome’s high-security Rebibbia Prison as they cast, rehearse and perform Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” ...

Must Die from the veteran Taviani brothers Vittorio and Paolo is a contemporary and moving adaptation of Julius Caesar staged with a cast of real prisoners in the high-security wing of Rome's Rebibbia Jail. Shot in stark black and white, the story of...

"We hope that when the film is released to the general public that cinemagoers will say to themselves or even those around them ... that even a prisoner with a dreadful sentence, even a life sentence, is and remains a human being," Paolo Taviani, 80,...

"We hope that when the film is released to the general public that cinemagoers will say to themselves or even those around them ... that even a prisoner with a dreadful sentence, even a life sentence, is and remains a human being," Paolo Taviani, 80,...

Directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani received the Golden Bear award out of 18 contenders at what is the first of the year's major European film festivals. The Taviani brothers, both in their early 80s, thanked the international jury led by...

A gimmicky melange of re-enacted documentary and heightened performance piece that feels padded even at 76 minutes, it follows the rehearsal and staging of an amateur production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in Rome's rough Rebibbia prison. With an...

Bear recipient Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) who will now presumably have to jump on a Berlin to Los Angeles flight to prepare for the Oscars. The winner this year was the Italian documentary Caesar Must Die about a group of maximum security prisoners...

But the freshwater pearl mussel, already critically endangered, is facing a potentially terminal threat from another foreign invader. American signal crayfish released into the wild have spread through the nation’s rivers in recent decades and now...

The Tavianis - Paolo is 80 and Vittorio 82 - followed a group of convicts in the Rebibbia jail on the outskirts of Rome as they rehearse "Julius Caesar" for a prison production. The play's themes of power and corruption, murder and vengeance clearly...

19 (Bloomberg) -- “Caesar Must Die,” a documentary about inmates in an Italian prison staging Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” last night won the Golden Bear award for the best movie at the Berlin Film Festival. Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the...

(AP) -- Italian documentary "Caesar Must Die," showing inmates of a high-security prison staging Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," was awarded the Berlin film festival's top award Saturday. Directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani received the Golden...

Must Die, a gritty film about a group of Italian prisoners who stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear award Saturday. The black-and-white “semi-documentary,” produced with actual prisoners serving time at Rebibbia,...

The Italian brothers convinced the jury, led by British director Mike Leigh, with their black-and-white documentary drama "Cesare deve morire" (Caesar must die). The film follows a group of convicts, including murderers and Mafiosi, as they rehearse...

The film, directed by veteran brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, follows a group of real-life convicts as they rehearse for a prison performance of Julius Caesar. Critics said the fact that most of the cast were prisoners intensified the drama of...

Italian movie showing inmates of a high-security prison staging Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” has been awarded the Berlin film festival’s top award Saturday. The documentary “Cesar Must Die” by directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani received the...

The “semi-documentary” is set in Rome’s high-security Rebibbia prison for the rehearsal, staging, and performing of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a production cast with actual prison inmates. Hungarian director Bence Fliegauf’s Just The Wind won the...

Golden Bear award for best film at the Berlin Film Festival. Shot in the Roman maximum security prison Rebibbia, it follows inmates staging Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Source: Berlin Film Festival. “Caesar Must Die,” a documentary about inmates in an...