National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Great Arch
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.3/10 for The Great Arch). The Great Arch is the shorter watch at 1h 44m 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 Great Arch| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | The Great Arch | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Stéphane Demoustier |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Sidse Babett Knudsen, Alessandro Bressanello, Claes Bang, Michel Fau, Xavier Dolan |
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 Great Arch
France, 1983. The biggest architectural competition in history is launched by the new socialist president, François Mitterrand. Coveted by all the biggest international architectural firms, the open-call competition is surprisingly won by an unknown: Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an architecture teacher from Copenhagen. Until then, the fifty-year-old Dane had built only four buildings: his home, and three small chapels.
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