Leopoldstadt

Year: 2024
Country: Russia
Director: Aleksey Borodin
Music by: Aleksandr Devyatyarov
Set designers: Stanislav Benediktov, Viktor Arkhipov, Liliya Baisheva
Costume designer: Maria Danilova
Lighting designer: Narek Tumanyan
Cast: Evgeniy Redko, Larisa Grebenshchikova, Anna Taratorkina, Aleksandr Doronin, Aleksandr Grishin, Yanina Sokolovskaya, Maria Ryshchenkova, Maksim Kerin, Aleksandr Devyatyarov
Genre: theatre production
Runtime: 158 min.
Age: 16+
Leopoldstadt is one of the districts of the Austrian capital. It got its official name from the Holy Roman Emperor, but it has always been popularly known as the "Matza Island", because a huge Jewish community has lived here since time immemorial.

Hermann Merz's family also comes from Leopoldstadt. But if his great-grandfather was just a fabric peddler, then Hermann Merz himself is a successful manufacturer, one of the richest people in Vienna, a regular at the opera and social salons accepted by high society. A few days before the start of the new 20th century, gathered his entire noisy, large family in a luxurious living room, Hermann Merz does not doubt for a second that his children and grandchildren will live in a kingdom of reason and beauty, scientific progress, philosophy and art...

In 1955, in this very same living room, Rose, Nathan and Leo meet – three “fragments” of a once huge family, the only ones who managed to survive the fire of the 20th century…

Awards & Festivals:

  • laureate of the MK Theatre Prize in the nomination "Best Large-Form Performance" in the "Masters" category (2023)
  • laureate of the Small Crystal Nail Award - “Gvozd Sezona” (Nail of a Season) Awards of the Russian Union of Theatre Workers (2024)
  • laureate of the Golden Mask in the nomination "Best Set Designer's Work" (Stanislav Benediktov, Viktor Arkhipov and Liliya Baisheva, 2024)


Вадим Рутковский

20 June 2023

Планета вертится, круглая, круглая

Спектакль-событие в РАМТе: Алексей Бородин поставил пьесу Тома Стоппарда «Леопольдштадт»