Christmas in Vigala vs National Theatre Live: The Audience

National Theatre Live: The Audience has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 5.5/10 for Christmas in Vigala). Christmas in Vigala is the shorter watch at 1h 26m compared with 2h 22m. Christmas in Vigala is the older of the two (1981 against 2013). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Christmas in Vigala posterChristmas in Vigala1981 VS National Theatre Live: The Audience posterNational Theatre Live: The Audience2013
Christmas in VigalaNational Theatre Live: The Audience
Audience score★ 5.5/10★ 8.3/10
Year19812013
Length1h 26m2h 22m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorMark SoosaarRobin Lough
Main castTõnu Kark, Evald Aavik, Kersti Kreismann, Häli Saarm, Kadriann SoosaarPaul Ritter, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Beevers, Edward Fox, Nell Williams

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: The Audience

For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.

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