National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Spotlight

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.8/10 for Spotlight). Spotlight is the shorter watch at 2h 9m compared with 2h 20m. Spotlight is the older of the two (2015 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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National Theatre Live: LeopoldstadtSpotlight
Audience score★ 8.8/10★ 7.8/10
Year20222015
Length2h 20m2h 9m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorPatrick MarberTom McCarthy
Main castArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley HollowayNeal Huff, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Billy Crudup, Mark Ruffalo

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…

Spotlight

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

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