Hannah Arendt (2012)

Directed by

Margarethe von Trotta

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

Germany, France, Luxembourg

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 290 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A biographical drama about the philosopher Hannah Arendt. It follows her as she reports on the 1961 trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker. The film shows the controversy that erupted over her articles and her concept of the banality of evil.

intellectualthoughtfulprobingseriousdeliberatesomberhistorically groundedconversational

What happens

Hannah Arendt is a 2012 biographical drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa. An international co-production from Germany, Luxembourg and France, the film centers on the life of German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt. The film, distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the United States, opened theatrically on 29 May 2013. German director von Trotta's film centers on Arendt's response to the 1961 trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann, which she covered for The New Yorker. Her articles in The New Yorker were published in 1963 as the book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Her writing on the trial became controversial for its depiction of both Eichmann and the Jewish councils, and for its introduction of Arendt's now-famous concept of "the banality of evil". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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