Forgive Us Our Debts vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.1/10 for Forgive Us Our Debts). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 44m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2018). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Forgive Us Our Debts posterForgive Us Our Debts2018 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Forgive Us Our DebtsNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year20182012
Length1h 44m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryAlbania–
DirectorAntonio MorabitoPolly Findlay
Main castGiorgio Gobbi, Marco Giallini, Paolo De Vita, Claudio Santamaria, Jerzy StuhrAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Forgive Us Our Debts

Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.

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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