National Theatre Live: Good vs Taking Sides
National Theatre Live: Good has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). National Theatre Live: Good is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 1h 48m. Taking Sides is the older of the two (2002 against 2023). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Good
Taking Sides| National Theatre Live: Good | Taking Sides | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.5/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2002 |
| Length | 1h 40m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Drama, Music, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Dominic Cooke | István Szabó |
| Main cast | David Tennant, Elliot Levey, Sharon Small, Jim Creighton, Rebecca Bainbridge | Harvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård |
Synopsis
National Theatre Live: Good
As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.
Taking Sides
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute…
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