Hannah Arendt (2013)

  • NR
  • 05/29/2013 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 53m

Her ideas changed the world

Overview

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.

Margarethe von Trotta

Director, Screenplay

Pamela Katz

Screenplay

Cast

Barbara Sukowa's headshot

Barbara Sukowa

Hannah Arendt
Axel Milberg's headshot

Axel Milberg

Heinrich Blücher
Janet McTeer's headshot

Janet McTeer

Mary McCarthy
Julia Jentsch's headshot

Julia Jentsch

Lotte Köhler
Nicholas Woodeson's headshot

Nicholas Woodeson

William Shawn
Ulrich Noethen's headshot

Ulrich Noethen

Hans Jonas
Leila Schaus's headshot

Leila Schaus

Laureen
Claire Johnston's headshot

Claire Johnston

Ms Serkin

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