National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Parkland

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.2/10 for Parkland). Parkland is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 2h 20m. Parkland is the older of the two (2013 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022 VS Parkland posterParkland2013
National Theatre Live: LeopoldstadtParkland
Audience score★ 8.8/10★ 6.2/10
Year20222013
Length2h 20m1h 34m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorPatrick MarberPeter Landesman
Main castArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley HollowayTom Welling, Paul Sparks, Ron Livingston, David Harbour, Billy Bob Thornton

Synopsis

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…

Parkland

November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.

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