National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

A passionate drama of love, family and endurance.

2022 · 140 min · ★ 8.8 · Drama, History

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 this epic, but intimate play.

Directed by Patrick Marber · Written by Tom Stoppard

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