Mank vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.7/10 for Mank). Mank is the shorter watch at 2h 12m compared with 2h 20m. Mank is the older of the two (2020 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Mank posterMank2020 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
MankNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 8.8/10
Year20202022
Length2h 12m2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorDavid FincherPatrick Marber
Main castTom Burke, Tuppence Middleton, Sam Troughton, Tom Pelphrey, Lily CollinsArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

Synopsis

Mank

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

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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