National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.6/10 for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the shorter watch at 1h 52m compared with 2h 20m. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the older of the two (2007 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2007 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 1h 52m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Julian Schnabel |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Jean-Pierre Cassel, Max von Sydow, Marina Hands, Marie-Josée Croze, Niels Arestrup |
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 Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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