National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Brutalist

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7/10 for The Brutalist). National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt is the shorter watch at 2h 20m compared with 3h 35m. National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt is the older of the two (2022 against 2024). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022 VS The Brutalist posterThe Brutalist2024
National Theatre Live: LeopoldstadtThe Brutalist
Audience score★ 8.8/10★ 7.0/10
Year20222024
Length2h 20m3h 35m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorPatrick MarberBrady Corbet
Main castArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley HollowayEmma Laird, Jonathan Hyde, Guy Pearce, Adrien Brody, Michael Epp

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 Brutalist

When a visionary architect and his wife flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern United States, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious, wealthy client.

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