Luther vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.4/10 for Luther). Luther is the shorter watch at 2h 3m compared with 2h 20m. Luther is the older of the two (2003 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Luther posterLuther2003 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
LutherNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 8.8/10
Year20032022
Length2h 3m2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryGermany–
DirectorEric TillPatrick Marber
Main castTorben Liebrecht, Marco Hofschneider, Alfred Molina, Bruno Ganz, Joseph FiennesArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

Synopsis

Luther

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

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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