Defne vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 9/10 for Defne). Defne is the shorter watch at 27m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Defne
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Defne | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 27m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | United Kingdom |
| Director | Hamdi Furkan Yıldırım | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Feriha Eyüboğlu, Lidya Akkuş, Enes Göçmen, Gülşah Buktur, Fahri Öztezcan | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Defne
Seeking a doctor for her grandmother, Defne sees three men bury a bag in the woods, and soon the danger finds her home.
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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