The Best of Youth vs The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.6/10 for The Disappearance of Josef Mengele). The Disappearance of Josef Mengele is the shorter watch at 2h 15m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Best of Youth
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele| The Best of Youth | The Disappearance of Josef Mengele | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 6.6/10 |
| Year | 2003 | 2025 |
| Length | 6h 7m | 2h 15m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Romance | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Marco Tullio Giordana | Kirill Serebrennikov |
| Main cast | Luigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio | August Diehl, Burghart Klaußner, Max Bretschneider, Friederike Becht, David Ruland |
Synopsis
The Best of Youth
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
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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