National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Special Unit - The First Murder
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt and Special Unit - The First Murder are tied on audience score (8.8/10). Special Unit - The First Murder is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 20m. National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt is the older of the two (2022 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Special Unit - The First Murder| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | Special Unit - The First Murder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 8.8/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Crime, Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Christoffer Boe |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lars Ranthe, Clara Rugaard, Alex Høgh Andersen, Mille Lehfeldt |
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…
Special Unit - The First Murder
Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, revealing power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. The closer the unit gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes…
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