National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.4/10 for The Best of Enemies). The Best of Enemies is the shorter watch at 2h 13m compared with 2h 20m. The Best of Enemies is the older of the two (2019 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022 VS The Best of Enemies posterThe Best of Enemies2019
National Theatre Live: LeopoldstadtThe Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 8.8/10★ 7.4/10
Year20222019
Length2h 20m2h 13m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country–United States of America
DirectorPatrick MarberRobin Bissell
Main castArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley HollowayNick Searcy, Wes Bentley, Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Bruce McGill

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…

The Best of Enemies

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

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