Black Death vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6/10 for Black Death). Black Death is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 20m. Black Death is the older of the two (2010 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Black Death
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt| Black Death | National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.0/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2010 | 2022 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 2h 20m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Horror | Drama, History |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Christopher Smith | Patrick Marber |
| Main cast | Eddie Redmayne, Andy Nyman, Tim McInnerny, David Warner, Sean Bean | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway |
Synopsis
Black Death
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
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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