Duse vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.8/10 for Duse). Duse is the shorter watch at 2h 2m compared with 2h 20m. National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt is the older of the two (2022 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Duse
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt| Duse | National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2022 |
| Length | 2h 2m | 2h 20m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | Italy | – |
| Director | Pietro Marcello | Patrick Marber |
| Main cast | Mimmo Borrelli, Noémie Merlant, Marcello Mazzarella, Federico Pacifici, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway |
Synopsis
Duse
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.
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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