Eleni vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 5.9/10 for Eleni). Eleni is the shorter watch at 1h 54m compared with 2h 20m. Eleni is the older of the two (1985 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Eleni
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt| Eleni | National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.9/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 1985 | 2022 |
| Length | 1h 54m | 2h 20m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Peter Yates | Patrick Marber |
| Main cast | John Malkovich, Glenne Headly, Ronald Pickup, Linda Hunt, Oliver Cotton | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway |
Synopsis
Eleni
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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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