National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.6/10 for The Disappearance of Josef Mengele). The Disappearance of Josef Mengele is the shorter watch at 2h 15m compared with 2h 20m. National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt is the older of the two (2022 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | The Disappearance of Josef Mengele | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 6.6/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 2h 15m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Kirill Serebrennikov |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | August Diehl, Burghart Klaußner, Max Bretschneider, Friederike Becht, David Ruland |
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 Disappearance of Josef Mengele
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, escapes to South America to rebuild his life in hiding. Through the eyes of his son who finds him again, Mengele is confronted with a past he can no longer ignore. From Buenos Aires to Paraguay via Brazil, the man who became known as “The Angel of Death” will organize his methodical disappearance to avoid any form of trial.
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