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Hannah Arendt (2012)

Hannah Arendt (2012)

Drama

Her ideas changed the world

Release Date: 2012, September 11
Directors: Margarethe von Trotta
Countries: Germany, France, Israel, Luxembourg
Production: MACT Productions, Heimatfilm, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Sophie Dulac Productions, Metro Communications, ARD Degeto, BR, WDR
Cast: Nicholas Woodeson, Janet McTeer, Barbara Sukowa, Ulrich Noethen, Julia Jentsch, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Axel Milberg, Gilbert Johnston, Michael Degen, Friederike Becht, Claire Johnston, Klaus Pohl

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.

Keywords:

biography woman director nazi holocaust (shoah) jerusalem philosopher trial magazine adolf eichmann's trial