78 Days vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8.8/10 for 78 Days). 78 Days is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2024). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
78 Days
National Theatre Live: Antigone| 78 Days | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 25m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Emilija Gašić | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Goran Bogdan, Jelena Đokić, Pavle Čemerikić, Milica Gicić, Viktorija Vasiljević | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
78 Days
After their father is conscripted during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, three sisters begin a Hi8 video diary in their countryside home. They film each other putting on make-up, picking cherries, playing party games, getting into fights and helping their mother cook. This fragile, intimate world is perhaps their only shelter from the reality of bombings, sirens and war.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…
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