National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Silence
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.1/10 for Silence). National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt is the shorter watch at 2h 20m compared with 2h 41m. Silence is the older of the two (2016 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Silence| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | Silence | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2016 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 2h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Martin Scorsese |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Tadanobu Asano, Yoshi Oida, Liam Neeson, Issey Ogata, Shinya Tsukamoto |
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…
Silence
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
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