National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt vs War and Music
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 8.5/10 for War and Music). 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
War and Music| National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt | War and Music | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.8/10 | ★ 8.5/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 20m | – |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | Russia |
| Director | Patrick Marber | Sarik Andreasyan |
| Main cast | Arty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway | Nicholay Kovbas, Michael Janibekyan, David Mkhitarel, Sergey Melkonyan, David Kotov-Oganesyan |
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…
War and Music
The war burst into the peaceful life of three friends suddenly, forever changing their destinies. Each of them went to the front, leaving the most valuable things at home in order to fight for this most valuable thing. Surprisingly, they are helped to survive in this fiery hell of battles with fascism, music. Taking musical instruments with them, friends play to maintain the morale of fellow soldiers, as well as to compose the leitmotif of…
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