Hannah Arendt

"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.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Barbara Sukowa

Hannah Arendt

Axel Milberg

Heinrich Blücher

Janet McTeer

Mary McCarthy

Julia Jentsch

Lotte Köhler

Nicholas Woodeson

William Shawn

Ulrich Noethen

Hans Jonas

L

Leila Schaus

Laureen

Claire Johnston

Ms Serkin