Monday 13 May 2019, 6.10PM
Speaker(s): The film is introduced by Dr Erica Sheen and Dr Nicoletta Asciutto (University of York)
Filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani spent six months following rehearsals for a production of Julius Caesar by inmates of the Roman maximum security prison Rebibbia. The resulting film explores how the actor-inmates become immersed in the drama’s interplay of friendship and betrayal, power, dishonesty and violence.
Location: City Screen cinema, Coney Street, York
Admission: Tickets available from City Screen