Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (2012)

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.

Date of release
2012-09-11
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (297)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Drama
Director
Margarethe von Trotta

Casting

  • Barbara Sukowa — Hannah Arendt
  • Axel Milberg — Heinrich Blücher
  • Janet McTeer — Mary McCarthy
  • Julia Jentsch — Lotte Köhler
  • Nicholas Woodeson — William Shawn
  • Ulrich Noethen — Hans Jonas
  • Leila Schaus — Laureen
  • Claire Johnston — Ms Serkin
  • Michael Degen — Kurt Blumenfeld
  • Friederike Becht — Young Hannah Arendt
  • Victoria Trauttmansdorff — Charlotte Beradt
  • Klaus Pohl — Martin Heidegger

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