I Swear vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.6/10 for I Swear). I Swear is the shorter watch at 2h 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.

I Swear posterI Swear2025 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
I SwearNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 8.8/10
Year20252022
Length2h 2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorKirk JonesPatrick Marber
Main castPeter Mullan, Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson, Ron DonachieArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

Synopsis

I Swear

Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.

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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