National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs The Young Karl Marx
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.9/10 for The Young Karl Marx). The Young Karl Marx is the shorter watch at 1h 58m compared with 2h 20m. The Young Karl Marx is the older of the two (2017 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
The Young Karl Marx| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | The Young Karl Marx | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2017 |
| Length | 2h 20m | 1h 58m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Raoul Peck |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Alexander Scheer, Olivier Gourmet, Rolf Kanies, August Diehl, Vicky Krieps |
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 Young Karl Marx
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement…
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