National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt (2022)
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.
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A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.