Edge of Night vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 4/10 for Edge of Night). Edge of Night is the shorter watch at 1h 25m 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.
Edge of Night
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Edge of Night | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 4.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 25m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Türker Süer | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Berk Hakman, Eda Akalın, Baran Akbulut, Deniz Zahmetsiz | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Edge of Night
Brothers Kenan and Sinan Yeşilyaprak, both officers in the Turkish army, have been conflicted since birth. Their father was a prominent — later persecuted — general and their mother a member of the oft-discriminated-against Kurdish minority.
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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