Minamata vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.9/10 for Minamata). Minamata is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 20m. Minamata is the older of the two (2020 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Minamata posterMinamata2020 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
MinamataNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 8.8/10
Year20202022
Length1h 55m2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorAndrew LevitasPatrick Marber
Main castMinami, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Bill Nighy, Jun KunimuraArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

Synopsis

Minamata

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

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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