[QODLink]
Europe
Top Berlin honour for film featuring convicts
Documentary about convicts rehearsing Shakespeare's play bags Golden Bear at film festival.
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2012 06:17

The top prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival has gone to Caesar Must Die, an Italian documentary about convicts rehearsing William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

The docu-drama, directed by brothers Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, documents prisoners in a high-security Roman prison as they prepare for a production of Shakespeare's play about the rise and fall of the emperor.

The recipient of the top Golden Bear takes on an added significance for featuring inmates, some convicted of murder and connections to the mafia, acting out a play regarded as a statement about honour and brotherhood.

Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports from Berlin.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Topics in this article
People
Featured on Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera's exclusive publishing of a key Guantanamo prison military document lays bare the brutality of force-feeding.
Former military official says poverty and anger in indigenous communities mean conditions for an "insurgency" are ripe.
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.
Series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
Featured
Hezbollah's hand in Syria
Lebanon-based militia is assisting villagers caught up in the conflict, and reportedly fighting alongside Assad forces.
Syria: The War Within
Two years since the start of the uprising, rebels and Assad's forces remain locked in conflict.
Afghan archaeology site faces rocky future
Copper-rich Mes Aynak is home to ruins of ancient villages, but threatened by a planned Chinese mining project.
China Rising
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.
Crisis in Bangladesh
Extensive coverage of war crimes tribunals and controversial calls for blasphemy laws.
join our mailing list