National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
- Movies
- 2022-01-27
- EN
- Released
- 2h 20m
- GB
- Drama - History
Production
National Theatre
Tagline
A passionate drama of love, family and endurance.
Storyline
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.
