La película italiana, inspirada en la obra de William Shakespeare, es una libre interpretación que nos presenta a los reclusos de una prisión narrando la tragedia de César a través de su ensayo para una obra. Se puede ver cómo los reclusos acaban metiéndose en la piel de sus personajes con actuaciones dramáticas que son admirables. La película tiene como dos caras al querer narrar la obra de Shakespeare, pero usando solo a los reclusos como recurso. La película en sí es un producto mediocre que se aleja de ser una película como cualquier otra para aferrarse al dramatismo teatral. Las actuaciones y la fotografía son dignas de respeto, pero no hay nada más que aportar. Esta película es una curiosa propuesta por tratar de representar una obra de Shakespeare de una manera diferente, pero al final es una película olvidable. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 5/10.

Filmin oyuncu kadrosunun tamamı hapishanede kalan gerçek mahkûmlar. Film sahneleri de mahkûmların Shakespeare'in Jül Sezar adlı tiyatro oyununu sergilemek için yaptıkları provalardan oluşmakta.

No real actor could have brought the emotional power we find in "Cesare Deve Morire", an interesting hybrid between a documentary, a theater piece and a drama. Absorbing work with a powerful ending.

A representação de um teatro clássico Shakesperiano dentro de uma prisão da Italia, onde a representação se mescla coma vida real dos presos. Excelente obra dos irmãos Taviani em mais uma excelente sessão do cineclube Xícara da Silva!

This is so cool -- high security prison puts on Julius Caesar, and the actors are recognizing themselves in some of the scenes.

'Caesar Must Die' is a drama which unfolds within the physical confines of an actual Italian prison. Neither a full documentary nor a movie, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is reinterpreted by the real inmates of Rome's Rebibbia prison, who stage the historical episode of Caesar's assassination and its aftermath. By bringing into the story their personal existential wounds and future expectations, this docufiction explores in depth the inmates' internal conflicts and their yearning for some ultimate salvation. In one of the final lines of this transcendentally powerful drama-within-a-drama, one of the inmates opens up even further honestly telling us that "now that I have found art, this cell of mine looks like a prison." Moving and inspiring at the same time.

Like a box within a box, within a box. Prisoners with pretty serious sentences are doing a Shakespare play, that they will present as a theatric piece. They rehearse, they act, they plan - they really want to do this. The interesting thing here are the real prisoners, with real emotions and real passion for this thing. The Taviani brothers stated that they hoped that the viewers saw the prisoners for the humans they are. This semi-documentary, done in a high-security prison in Rome is well shot, lovely produced and got a great pace. It's not a second too short - this means it tends to be boring - hey, this is mostly inmates preparing for a theatrical show. In the end it was still deeply satisfying for me. Original, thought-provoking film with lovely photography. Touching, interesting and a nice film about theatre, freedom and prison. 7.5 out of 10 tyrannies.

Mesclando a ficção com o documentário (o que o aproxima do grande "Jogo de Cena", de Eduardo Coutinho), "César Deve Morrer" é uma brilhante e evocativa celebração ao poder redentor e transcendental da Arte, a qual, a despeito das segregações sócio-acadêmicas, revela-se muito mais próxima de nossas vidas do que antes imaginávamos. Nesse caso, a obra de Shakespeare consegue ressoar de forma tão profunda na trajetória pessoal de cada um dos presidiários protagonistas, que estes, ao incorporarem os dramas e personagens de "Júlio César", encontram na peça uma via única de expressão, redenção e liberdade para suas almas marcadas pelo cativeiro (externo e interno). Desse modo, conferimos um interessante exemplo do poder transformador que a Arte exerce não só sobre diferentes histórias e realidades, mas também sobre ela mesma, haja vista as novas nuances e leituras que a própria peça de Shakespeare ganha ao longo dessa experiência no presídio - e tal dicotomia entre a independência espaço-temporal e a necessária relação da Arte com seus receptores físicos não deixa de ser outro fascinante objeto de observação. Filmado em um evocativo preto e branco que culmina nas cores do clímax da apresentação final, "César Deve Morrer" nos presenteia com belíssimas e inspiradas passagens, sustentadas pelo uso inventivo do espaço presidiário e pela força das atuações do elenco principal (com destaque para Salvatore Striano, com seu atormentado Brutus). E se os momentos "verídicos" da projeção soam artificiais ou fracos, isso só demonstra o enorme (e mais expressivo) espaço que a Arte acabou ocupando na vida dessas pessoas - e, porque não, na vida dos expectadores.

"It's an arresting, playful and moving film ..."

The Shakespeare's Julius Caesar represented by the inmates in a prison. A combination of documentary, theater and movie where the line between fiction and reality is not well defined but ambiguous and left to the viewer's interpretation.

Odkedy som sa zoznamil s umenim, tato cela sa premenila na vezenie

Only if I had seen this with my HS reading of Julius Caesar! The black n white segment is much more interesting and intense than the color post-kill. The scene between Decius and Caesar in the prison cell is arrestingly powerful and rightfully cast! The Oz-like bearfest is also a nice touch as well!!

Julius "Counselor". Kinda grasping for what to say about this slim 76-minute take on Shakespeare's timeless tragedy (one of my personal favorites) by celebrated Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, which here uses the conceit of having the performance workshopped by federal inmates. A sparsely developed, grimly neo-realist pseudo-documentary (though not without its often bleak beauty and impressive camerawork), "Caesar Must Die" has all the ambition of a high school stage reading, yet it manages to peer deeper into the incarcerated mindsets of cellmates doomed by society to play the part of prisoner, in the film's singularly cruel and ironic twist of fate. This theme isn't always handled in the most subtle of ways -- a final sequence has a detainee blatantly addressing the camera to extol his poetic plight -- but for the most part "Caesar Must Die" is a deeply cutting satirization of the Roman penal system, and still yet one which doesn't skimp on the human toll that goes into keeping up appearances. (73/100)

These damaged men give the most powerful performance of Julius Caesar.

the whole idea of prisoners re-enacting the play sounded good but i was disappointed.

the idea itself is extreamly interesting so is the story while the acting does its magic on you, its a work of art...

"-¿Y tú, Bruto?¿También tú, Bruto? Entonces caiga, César-" Con un argumento a leguas conocido, Cesare Deve Morire es una adaptación libre del Julio César de Shakespeare en clave de documental con una interesante variación: Los actores son convictos en una prisión de máxima seguridad en Roma (la cárcel de Rebibbia para ser más exactos). El resultado es una magnífica puesta en escena (acaso una doble puesta en escena) orquestada magistralmente por los hermanos Paolo & Vittorio Taviani combinada con una excelente fotografía- - - Filme brutal de una fuerza dramática abrumadora y certera; en su fondo y forma un delicioso ejercicio de dirección de actores digno de todos los aplauzos. Belleza subliminal donde los criminales hacen de criminales en la ficción y en la realidad. O a la inversa. Joya!

A recent Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's remarkable production of "Julius Caesar" imbues, without altering a word, a contemporary interpretation; hawkers selling "Caesar" T-shirts, hotdogs and huge signs encouraging voters to go to www.juliuscaesar.com to register; proving Shakespeare's power to habitually defy the archaic, lending ubiquitous credence to his massive appeal throughout the ages. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, brothers whose efficacious, formidable imaginations are the force behind the brilliance of this stunningly unique production of "Julius Caesar"; filmed entirely in Rebibbia prison, outside of Rome; the cast is comprised of notorious convicts, men serving life -sentences for heinous crimes; the "audition" process demands sincerity and ingenuity, each man repeating, with different intonations the same sentence; desperation and hope informs each interview; a chance to depict a historical version of men who have murdered, slandered, sabotaged their "friends, Romans and countrymen"; men whose crimes personally resonate with each inmate. Staggering, that those selected were neophytes. A play, within a play, within a film, reeks with intelligence, generates profound empathy for men whose lives will always be enshrined behind iron bars; their acting skills might lack the sophistication, seasoning of those trained (Lawrence Olivier, Richard Burton) but are divinely compensated by the virtuoso intensity of their anger, galvanizing realization that great, "honorable" men are, oftentimes, doomed by their ambition. William would have applauded their adaptation. Caesar tell Brutus, "men at some times are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings." After the final curtain, incarcerated in their tiny sphere; those words must scream, haunt; wondering how and when they surrendered control of their destiny; forever plagued by untold possibilities, cauterized, squandered abilities. The Taviani brothers raped anonymity, degradation from stained lives, allowing a hiatus from despondency, bestowing a taste of fame, not infamy, to brush these fractured existences, momentarily alleviating doomed "underlings", leaving accomplished, controlled "masters of their fates", for an ephemeral second, free, communing with the celestial. FIVE STARS!!!! For Now...........Peneflix

A little Fellini - a touch of Bergman...a great portrayal of human spirit and joy set inside the dualism of immortality and imprisonment.

A fascinating Italian documentary/drama about prisoners performing Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR in a prison. It is difficult to discern reality from fiction as the the prisoners play themselves playing Shakespeare. They of course do a good job playing themselves, but they also do a very good job with their Caesarian selves as well. Bizarre, but it works.