Girl from La Mancha vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.2/10 for Girl from La Mancha). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 34m. Girl from La Mancha is the older of the two (1963 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Girl from La Mancha posterGirl from La Mancha1963 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Girl from La ManchaNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 5.2/10★ 10.0/10
Year19632012
Length1h 34m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorVicente EscriváPolly Findlay
Main castMillie Perkins, Folco Lulli, Walter Santesso, Vittoria Prada, Pepe RubioAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Girl from La Mancha

The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is suddenly involved by the legend of the brave and ingenous gentleman.

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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