Lover of the Last Empress vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 5.9/10 for Lover of the Last Empress). Lover of the Last Empress is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 20m. Lover of the Last Empress is the older of the two (1995 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Lover of the Last Empress
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt| Lover of the Last Empress | National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.9/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 1995 | 2022 |
| Length | 1h 40m | 2h 20m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Andrew Lau Wai-Keung | Patrick Marber |
| Main cast | Tony Leung Ka-fai, Yu Rongguang, Lau Shun, Chingmy Yau, Yvonne Yung Hung | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway |
Synopsis
Lover of the Last Empress
The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with…
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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