Hannah Arendt
- Released on
- Runtime
- 113 mins
HANNAH ARENDT is 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.
HANNAH ARENDT is 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.
Cast
- Barbara Sukowa
- Axel Milberg
- Janet McTeer
- Julia Jentsch
- Nicholas Woodeson
- Ulrich Noethen
- Leila Schaus
- Claire Johnston
- Michael Degen
- Friederike Becht
- Victoria Trauttmansdorff
- Klaus Pohl
- Gilbert Johnston
Director
- Margarethe von Trotta
Producers
- Bettina Brokemper
- Johannes Rexin
Screenwriter
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Pamela Katz
