National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt (movie)
- User score: 8.8
- Production country: GB
- Producer: Patrick Marber
- Production companies: National Theatre
- Genre: Drama, History
- Revenue: $941,000
- Release date: 1/27/2022
- Run time: 140 min.
Movie description
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.
