National Theatre Live: Antigone vs The Errand Boy
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for The Errand Boy). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2020). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
The Errand Boy| National Theatre Live: Antigone | The Errand Boy | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 32m | – |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Carlos del Castillo |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Ramiro Meneses, Ricardo Vesga, Judy Henríquez, Luis Fernando Montoya, Lina Restrepo |
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 Errand Boy
1954, in the small mountain town of Colombia, Alfonso, an 11-year old boy whose mother passed away, doesn't have any family and to survive has no other recourse than to leave school and begin working as errand boy at a local pharmacy. There he learns all of the basic concepts of medicine, which changes his life in spectacular fashion.
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