National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs Triumph of the Heart

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.5/10 for Triumph of the Heart). Triumph of the Heart is the shorter watch at 1h 58m 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 posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022 VS Triumph of the Heart posterTriumph of the Heart2025
National Theatre Live: LeopoldstadtTriumph of the Heart
Audience score★ 8.8/10★ 6.5/10
Year20222025
Length2h 20m1h 58m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country–United States of America
DirectorPatrick MarberAnthony D'Ambrosio
Main castArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley HollowayMarcin Kwaśny, Christopher Sherwood, Sharon Oliphant, Agnieszka Goławska, Rowan Polonski

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…

Triumph of the Heart

The extraordinary true story of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest who volunteered to die in place of another man in Auschwitz during World War II.

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