Dust Cloth vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Dust Cloth). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 39m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2015). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Dust ClothNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20152012
Length1h 39m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryTurkey–
DirectorAhu ÖztürkPolly Findlay
Main castSerra Yılmaz, Meral Çetinkaya, Didem İnselel, Mehmet Özgür, Nazan KesalAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Dust Cloth

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.

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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