National Theatre Live: The Audience vs The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

National Theatre Live: The Audience has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 6.6/10 for The Disappearance of Josef Mengele). The Disappearance of Josef Mengele is the shorter watch at 2h 15m compared with 2h 22m. National Theatre Live: The Audience is the older of the two (2013 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: The Audience posterNational Theatre Live: The Audience2013 VS The Disappearance of Josef Mengele posterThe Disappearance of Josef Mengele2025
National Theatre Live: The AudienceThe Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Audience score★ 8.3/10★ 6.6/10
Year20132025
Length2h 22m2h 15m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorRobin LoughKirill Serebrennikov
Main castPaul Ritter, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Beevers, Edward Fox, Nell WilliamsAugust Diehl, Burghart Klaußner, Max Bretschneider, Friederike Becht, David Ruland

Synopsis

National Theatre Live: The Audience

For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, escapes to South America to rebuild his life in hiding. Through the eyes of his son who finds him again, Mengele is confronted with a past he can no longer ignore. From Buenos Aires to Paraguay via Brazil, the man who became known as “The Angel of Death” will organize his methodical disappearance to avoid any form of trial.

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