April Skies vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

April Skies is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2022). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

April Skies posterApril Skies2022 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
April SkiesNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 0.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20222012
Length1h 30m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryCA–
DirectorPascal PayantPolly Findlay
Main castGudmundur Thorvaldsson, Svandís Dóra Einarsdóttir, Sophie Mousel, Pauline Nyrls, Sara HagnöAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

April Skies

Three stories based in three countries in Europe. Three languages with three sets of peoples, all intertwine to the same tragedy.

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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