National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Tesla

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 5.8/10 for Tesla). Tesla is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 20m. Tesla is the older of the two (2020 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Audience score★ 8.8/10★ 5.8/10
Year20222020
Length2h 20m1h 42m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorPatrick MarberMichael Almereyda
Main castArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley HollowayEthan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Kyle MacLachlan, Josh Hamilton

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…

Tesla

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.

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