"A passionate drama of love, family and endurance."
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.
Hermann
Gretl
Young Nathan
Unknown Role
Leo
Young Leo
Jacob
Young Jacob
Young Leo
Young Leo
Unknown Role
Unknown Role
Rosa
Unknown Role
Unknown Role
Pauli