A United Kingdom vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.7/10 for A United Kingdom). A United Kingdom is the shorter watch at 1h 51m compared with 2h 20m. A United Kingdom is the older of the two (2016 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A United Kingdom posterA United Kingdom2016 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
A United KingdomNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 8.8/10
Year20162022
Length1h 51m2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryCzech Republic–
DirectorAmma AsantePatrick Marber
Main castLaura Carmichael, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo, Jack DavenportArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

Synopsis

A United Kingdom

The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in…

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