National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Tabula rasa

Tabula rasa is the shorter watch at 30m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2016). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012 VS Tabula rasa posterTabula rasa2016
National Theatre Live: AntigoneTabula rasa
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 0.0/10
Year20122016
Length1h 32m30m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorPolly FindlaySándor Csoma
Main castAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie WhittakerLevente Molnár, Emma Molnár-Szabó, Zsolt Bogdán, Erika Tankó, Norbert Böjthe

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…

Tabula rasa

1990, Transylvania. The dictator is dead. 13-year old Emma and Abel fall in love, but their parents' past harbours a dark secret.

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