My Brother Simple vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.2/10 for My Brother Simple). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 53m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2017). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
My Brother Simple
National Theatre Live: Antigone| My Brother Simple | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2017 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 53m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Markus Goller | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Frederick Lau, Ludger Pistor, Axel Stein, David Kross, Devid Striesow | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
My Brother Simple
Ben and Barnabas are unseparatable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three.
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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