Genius vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.5/10 for Genius). Genius is the shorter watch at 1h 44m compared with 2h 20m. Genius is the older of the two (2016 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Genius
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt| Genius | National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2022 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 2h 20m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Michael Grandage | Patrick Marber |
| Main cast | Jude Law, Dominic West, Laura Linney, Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway |
Synopsis
Genius
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
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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