Mary of Nazareth vs The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.7/10 for Mary of Nazareth). Mary of Nazareth is the shorter watch at 3h 20m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2012). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Mary of Nazareth posterMary of Nazareth2012 VS The Best of Youth posterThe Best of Youth2003
Mary of NazarethThe Best of Youth
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 8.1/10
Year20122003
Length3h 20m6h 7m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History, Romance
Country––
DirectorGiacomo CampiottiMarco Tullio Giordana
Main castAndreas Pietschmann, Luca Marinelli, Nikolai Kinski, Paz Vega, Robert StadloberLuigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio

Synopsis

Mary of Nazareth

The film begins with the Annunciation: Mary, a young Galilean, virginal conceived the Messiah, the Son of God. Her husband Joseph, a humble carpenter, decided to stay by his side throughout. When Caesar Augustus ordered the Jews to register people, the couple embarks on a journey to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. Meanwhile, Maria Magdalena, a young woman from the same town that Mary, turns away from God and placed in the palace of King Herod…

The Best of Youth

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

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