Denial vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.9/10 for Denial). Denial is the shorter watch at 1h 49m compared with 2h 20m. Denial is the older of the two (2016 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Denial posterDenial2016 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
DenialNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 8.8/10
Year20162022
Length1h 49m2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorMick JacksonPatrick Marber
Main castMark Gatiss, Andrew Scott, Harriet Walter, Timothy Spall, Tom WilkinsonArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

Synopsis

Denial

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

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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