Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

6.9IMDb Score
Released:2012-09-11
Genre:Drama
Duration:113 min
Director:Margarethe von Trotta
Actors:Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Nicholas Woodeson
Production:MACT Productions, Heimatfilm, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Sophie Dulac Productions, Metro Communications, ARD Degeto, BR, WDR

Overview:

A portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.

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