Christmas in Vigala vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 5.5/10 for Christmas in Vigala). Christmas in Vigala is the shorter watch at 1h 26m compared with 2h 15m. Christmas in Vigala is the older of the two (1981 against 2023). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Christmas in Vigala posterChristmas in Vigala1981 VS National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023
Christmas in VigalaNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 5.5/10★ 9.0/10
Year19812023
Length1h 26m2h 15m
GenresDrama, HistoryComedy, Drama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorMark SoosaarJeremy Herrin
Main castTõnu Kark, Evald Aavik, Kersti Kreismann, Häli Saarm, Kadriann SoosaarSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe

Synopsis

Christmas in Vigala

The Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not a peaceful holiday. The manor house has just been pillaged during the peasant's revolt; the air is full of smoke of fire and there is the premonition of inevitable punishment. Bernhard Laipmann is a tenant farmer whose wife is asking him to leave home since her husband keeps drawing the attention of the authorities. Having doubts about leaving, Laipmann is inspired by endeavouring towards freedom and…

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

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