National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
A passionate drama of love, family and endurance.
2022 en 140 minutes
Rating: 8.8
Plot
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.
Trailer
Cast
Aidan McArdle
Hermann
Faye Castelow
Gretl
Rhys Bailey
Young Nathan
Sebastian Armesto
Arty Froushan
Leo
Wesley Holloway
Young Leo
Joshua Satine
Jacob
Aaron Shuf
Young Jacob
Oliver Kohn
Young Leo
Mace Phoenix
Young Leo
Aaron Neil
Eleanor Wyld
Jenna Augen
Rosa
Mark Edel-Hunt
Edie Newman
Ilan Galkoff
Pauli
