As part of film season dedicated to Marlon Brando - Un Mito Chiamato Brando - Videoteca Pasinetti will screen Julius Caesar (USA 1953, 123’), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz; starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Edmond O’Brien.

The film will be shown in the original version with Italian subtitles.

Brutus (James Mason) is convinced by a scheming band of Roman senators, led by Caius Cassius (John Gielgud), that his dear friend Julius Caesar (Louis Calhern) intends to dissolve the republic and install himself as monarch, and he joins a conspiracy to assassinate him. Brutus stirringly defends his actions, but when Mark Antony (Marlon Brando) responds with a speech that plays upon the crowd's love for their fallen leader, a battle between the two factions is assured.

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (1953).