Hannah Arendt

Her ideas changed the world

• Drama

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.

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Released

11 September 2012

Studio

MACT Productions, Heimatfilm, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Sophie Dulac Productions

IMDb

View listing