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Hannah Arendt is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Margarethe von Trotta released in USA on 29 may 2013 with Barbara Sukowa
Hannah Arendt (2012)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 29 may 2013
Length 1h53
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
OriginGerman
Themes Films about writers, Philosophie, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Rating70%
Hannah Arendt is a 2012 German-Luxembourgian-French biographical drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa. The film centers in the life of German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt. It is distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the United States, where it opened theatrically on 29 May 2013.
German director von Trotta's film centers on Arendt's response to the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann, which she covered for The New Yorker. 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".
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As the film opens Eichmann has been captured in South America. It is revealed that he escaped there via the "rat line" and with forged papers. Arendt, now a professor in New York, volunteers to write about the trial for The New Yorker and is given the assignment. Observing the trial, she is impressed by how ordinary and mediocre Eichmann appears. She had expected someone scary, a monster, and he does not seem to be that. In a cafe conversation in which the Faust story is raised it is mentioned that Eichmann is not in any way a Mephisto (the devil). Returning to New York, Arendt has massive piles of transcripts to go through. Her husband has a brain aneurysm, almost dying, and causing her further delay. She continues to struggle with how Eichmann rationalized his behavior through platitudes about bureaucratic loyalty, and that he was just doing his job. When her material is finally published, it immediately creates enormous controversy, resulting in angry phone calls and a falling out from her old friend, Hans Jonas.Actors
Barbara Sukowa
(Hannah Arendt)
Janet McTeer
(Mary McCarthy)
Nicholas Woodeson
(William Shawn)
Julia Jentsch
(Lotte Köhler)
Axel Milberg
(Heinrich Blücher)
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