National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Turtles Can Fly
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.8/10 for Turtles Can Fly). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 38m. Turtles Can Fly is the older of the two (2005 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Turtles Can Fly| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Turtles Can Fly | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2005 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 38m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Bahman Ghobadi |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim |
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…
Turtles Can Fly
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
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