Manas vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8.5/10 for Manas). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 41m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Manas
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Manas | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 41m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mariana Brennand Fortes | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Dira Paes, Clébia Sousa, Jamilli Correa, Fátima Macedo, Rômulo Braga | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Manas
Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.
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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