National Theatre Live: Antigone vs The Deep
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.3/10 for The Deep). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 35m. Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
The Deep| National Theatre Live: Antigone | The Deep | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.3/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Baltasar Kormákur |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Theodór Júlíusson, Björn Thors |
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…
The Deep
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
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