For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Add us on Facebook ☛ http://on.fb.me/s5KV2C<br /><br />"All the world's a stage" is a popular line from Shakespeare's "As You Like It." That's especially meaningful to some high security inmates in Rome's Rebibbia Prison as you will see in our next report.<br /><br />Detainees of a prison in Italy are the protagonists of the film which won the Golden Bear in the 62nd film festival in Berlin.<br /><br />A section of High Security prisoners recite Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in the movie "Caesar Must Die."<br /><br />The film is shot entirely in Rome's Rebibbia prison.<br /><br />The directors -the Taviani brothers- were electrified after seeing a show at the prison theater.<br /><br />[Paolo Taviani, Film Director]:<br />"Let’s do a cinematographic work on this theme, which is one of the most powerful emotions that we had these last few years."<br /><br />Salvatore Striano is a former inmate who has learned to recite in that prison’s theater<br /><br />For the past couple of years Striano has enjoyed his new life as an actor.<br /><br />Now he returns to the place where he served his sentence to interpret the character of Brutus.<br /><br />[Salvatore Striano, Actor]:<br />"I was wondering what I'm doing, but not because of the fear of having to play with former friends in prison because I knew their talent, their energy, their artistic power, but for the place itself."<br /><br />[Vittorio Taviani, Film Director]:<br />"One of them wrote to his woman: I beg you Laura. I will recite, I beg you come to see me because while performing it seems to me you could forgive me!"<br /><br />The prison's director, who also acts in the film, believes that the theater can give an opportunity in terms of pedagogical treatment for this category of detainees.<br /><br />[Carmelo Cantone, Diretor, Rebibbia Prison]:<br />"They had the opportunity to interact very seriously and deeply with their emotions and their own experience."...
