National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Picture Bride
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.5/10 for Picture Bride). Picture Bride is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 2h 20m. Picture Bride is the older of the two (1995 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Picture Bride| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | Picture Bride | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 1995 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 1h 34m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | Japan |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Kayo Hatta |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Toshirō Mifune |
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…
Picture Bride
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The miserable girl finds solace with her new friend Kana, a young mother who helps Riyo accept her new life.
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