Lumumba vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Lumumba is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 20m. Lumumba is the older of the two (2000 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Lumumba
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt| Lumumba | National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2022 |
| Length | 1h 55m | 2h 20m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Raoul Peck | Patrick Marber |
| Main cast | Ériq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway |
Synopsis
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a…
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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