National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Shattered Glass
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7/10 for Shattered Glass). Shattered Glass is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 2h 20m. Shattered Glass is the older of the two (2003 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Shattered Glass| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | Shattered Glass | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2003 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 1h 34m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Billy Ray |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Rosario Dawson, Peter Sarsgaard, Steve Zahn, Chloë Sevigny, Melanie Lynskey |
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…
Shattered Glass
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.
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