National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Professor Mamlock
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for Professor Mamlock). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 39m. Professor Mamlock is the older of the two (1961 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Professor Mamlock| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Professor Mamlock | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 1961 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 39m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | East Germany |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Konrad Wolf |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Peter Sturm, Manfred Krug, Wolfgang Heinz, Ursula Burg, Hilmar Thate |
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…
Professor Mamlock
A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution.
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