National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Founder
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.1/10 for The Founder). The Founder is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 20m. The Founder is the older of the two (2016 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
The Founder| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | The Founder | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2016 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | John Lee Hancock |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern, Patrick Wilson, Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman |
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 Founder
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
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