“Famine threatens Rome and hunger fuels the tensions between the country’s elite and the deprived masses. As civil unrest stirs political upheaval, the war hero Coriolanus is driven to defend and then ...

Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is a gripping political tragedy that explores the volatile rise and fall of a brilliant Roman general undone by his own pride and contempt for the people he’s meant to serve.

The 2011 British film Coriolanus is an adaptation of the tragedy Coriolanus by William Shakespeare. This marks Fiennes’ first time directing. It sets the story and original text by Shakespeare in a ...