/JULIUS CAESAR/ (1979)
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- Dvd Region: 2+4 Pal (UK & Europe)
- Certificate: U
- Running Time: Approx. 150 minutes
- Type: Fullscreen
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Originally Transmitted: 11th February 1979
- Dvd Release Date: 2005
- Released By: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
- Distributed By: DD Home Entertainment
- Format: Colour Dvd Pal
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English sdh
- Audio: Mono
- Format: 4:3
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A HISTORIE
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television.
The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical
and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.
“Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war”
The crowds may have hailed Julius Caesar after his
conquering of Pompey the Great, but there are other Romans
who are alarmed at the power and authority the great dictator is assuming.
Among them are a leading citizen Cassius
and the respected Marcus Brutus,
a friend of Caesar. The consequences of their actions
will soon throw the Republic into violent and bitter turmoil . . .
Shakespeare’s greatest
Roman tragedy breaks all
conventional rules of drama, creating neither
a clear-cut hero nor villain. Director Herbert Wise, who also directed the
great BBC dramas I Claudius and Elizabeth R.
brilliantly, conveys a world of personal and political conflict while allowing the play’s chilling supernatural undercurrent to emerge.
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"Hence, home, you idle creatures, get you home!
Is this a holiday? What, know you not,
Being mechanical, you ought not walk
Upon a labouring day without the sign
Of your profession? – Speak, what trade art thou?”
Richard Pasco Keith Michell
Virginia McKenna
David Collings and Charles Gray
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
In credits order
- Richard Pasco ... Marcus Brutus
- Charles Gray ... Julius Caesar
- Keith Michell ... Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony)
- David Collings ... Cassius
- Virginia McKenna ... Portia
- Elizabeth Spriggs ... Calpurnia
- Sam Dastor ... Casca
- Jon Laurimore ... Flavius
- John Sterland ... Marullus
- Garrick Hagon ... Octavius Caesar
- Brian Coburn ... Messala
- Leonard Preston ... Titinius
- Alexander Davion ... Decius Brutus
- Darien Angadi ... Cinna
- Andrew Hilton ... Lucilius
- Anthony Dawes ... Ligarius
- Roger Bizley ... Metellus
- Manning Wilson ... Cicero
- Ronald Forfar ... Soothsayer
- Patrick Marley ... Artemidorus
- William Simons ... Trebonius
- John Tordoff ... Cinna the Poet
- Philip York ... Young Cato
- Christopher Good ... Clitus
- Robert Oates ... Pindarus
- Alan Thompson ... 1st Citizen / 1st Plebeian
- Leo Dolan ... 2nd Citizen / 2nd Plebeian
- Johnnie Wade ... 3rd Plebeian / 1st Soldier
- David Henry ... 4th Plebeian / 2nd Soldier
- Jonathan Scott-Taylor ... Lucius
- Tom Kelly ... Claudius / Antony's Servant
- Jack Elliott ... Octavius' Servant / Messenger
- Michael Cogan ... Caesar's Servant
- Reginald Jessup ... Poet
- Maurice Thorogood ... Strato
- Michael Greatorex ... Varro
- Nicholas Gecks ... Volumnius
- Michael Jenkinson ... Dardanius
- Roy Spencer ... Lepidus
- Terence Conoley ... Popilius
- Noel Johnson ... Publius
- Director: Herbert Wise
- Produced: Cedric Messina
- Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play
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William Shakespeare
The Tragedy Of
JULIUS
CAESAR
ABOUT JULIUS CAESAR
Herbert Wise
brings his power and original ability to this distinguished production of one
of the best historical dramas ever written . . . On 21st September 1599 a
Swiss doctor, Thomas Platter,
saw what can only have been Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar “very
pleasingly performed” in the newly built Globe Theatre – ‘the straw-thatched house” – on
the south side of the Thames . . . It first appeared in print in the 1623 Folio . . .
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