Fireflies at El Mozote vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
Fireflies at El Mozote and National Theatre Live: Antigone are tied on audience score (10/10). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m 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.
Fireflies at El Mozote
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Fireflies at El Mozote | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | United Kingdom |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Fireflies at El Mozote
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
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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