National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Best of Youth
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 8.1/10 for The Best of Youth). National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt is the shorter watch at 2h 20m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | The Best of Youth | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2003 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 6h 7m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Luigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio |
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 Youth
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
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