National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Remedy

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Remedy). Remedy is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 32m. Remedy is the older of the two (1983 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012 VS Remedy posterRemedy1983
National Theatre Live: AntigoneRemedy
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.0/10
Year20121983
Length1h 32m1h 28m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorPolly FindlayŞerif Gören
Main castAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie WhittakerHaydar Karaer, Erol Batıbeki, Nur Sürer, Tarık Akan, Sırrı Elitaş

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…

Remedy

A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isolated village., where she’s soon tending sick children and delivering babies.

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