National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Innocents
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 7.1/10 for The Innocents). The Innocents is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 20m. The Innocents 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 Innocents| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | The Innocents | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2016 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | Belgium |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Anne Fontaine |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Helena Sujecka, Joanna Kulig, Vincent Macaigne, Agata Kulesza, Thomas Coumans |
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 Innocents
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
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