Hannah Arendt (2012)
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.
- Released
- 2012-09-11
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Margarethe von Trotta, Margarethe von Trotta, Pamela Katz
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 299 votes
Cast
- Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt
- Axel Milberg as Heinrich Blücher
- Janet McTeer as Mary McCarthy
- Julia Jentsch as Lotte Köhler
- Nicholas Woodeson as William Shawn
- Ulrich Noethen as Hans Jonas
- Leila Schaus as Laureen
- Claire Johnston as Ms Serkin
- Michael Degen as Kurt Blumenfeld
- Friederike Becht as Young Hannah Arendt
- Victoria Trauttmansdorff as Charlotte Beradt
- Klaus Pohl as Martin Heidegger