National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Nobody Owns Me

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Nobody Owns Me). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 50m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2013). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012 VS Nobody Owns Me posterNobody Owns Me2013
National Theatre Live: AntigoneNobody Owns Me
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.7/10
Year20122013
Length1h 32m1h 50m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorPolly FindlayKjell-Åke Andersson
Main castAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie WhittakerMikael Persbrandt, Hanna Alström, Ida Engvoll, Karin Franz Körlof, Sten Ljunggren

Synopsis

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…

Nobody Owns Me

The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden.

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