Autumn vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Autumn). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 39m. Autumn is the older of the two (2008 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Autumn posterAutumn2008 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
AutumnNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 10.0/10
Year20082012
Length1h 39m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorÖzcan AlperPolly Findlay
Main castSerkan Keskin, Onur Saylak, Megi Kobaladze, Raife Yenigül, Nino LezhavaAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Autumn

Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

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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