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National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Film / 2022

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

Directed by Patrick Marber
DramaHistory

★ 8.8/10Audience rating

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, …

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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.

Cast

Aidan McArdleHermann Faye CastelowGretl Rhys BaileyYoung Nathan Sebastian Armesto Arty FroushanLeo Wesley HollowayYoung Leo Joshua SatineJacob Aaron ShufYoung Jacob Oliver KohnYoung Leo Mace PhoenixYoung Leo Aaron Neil Eleanor Wyld
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Jenna AugenRosa Mark Edel-Hunt Edie Newman Ilan GalkoffPauli

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