Hannah Arendt
2012, Film, 113 min, Biography, Drama, German, Germany, MoviePedia score 69
Her ideas changed the world
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.
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Cast
- Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt
- Axel Milberg as Heinrich Blücher
- Janet McTeer as Mary McCarthy
- Julia Jentsch as Lotte Köhler
- Timothy Lone as News Speaker
- Megan Gay as Francis Wells
- Nicholas Woodeson as William Shawn
- Tom Leick as Jonathan Schell
- Ulrich Noethen as Hans Jonas
- Nilton Martins as Student Enrico
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