Mafioso, murderer tackle Shakespeare in new film

Drug dealers, a Mafioso and a murderer are cast in the roles of Caesar, Brutus, Cassius and others in Caesar Must Die, a docu-drama about inmates at a tough Italian prison who take on a Shakespeare tragedy. The movie, which has its world premiere at the Berlin film festival on Saturday, was shot at the Rebibbia prison on the outskirts of Rome, some of it in the high security wing. Directed by veteran Italian film makers Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, Cesare Deve Morire might equally be called

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