Film
Hannah Arendt
Germany · France · LU · Israel- Age rating
- 12
- Director
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Year
- 2012
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.
Top 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
Leila Schaus
Laureen
Claire Johnston
Ms Serkin
Michael Degen
Kurt Blumenfeld
Friederike Becht
Young Hannah Arendt
Victoria Trauttmansdorff
Charlotte Beradt
Klaus Pohl
Martin Heidegger
Gilbert Johnston
Professor Kahn
Directed by
Margarethe von Trotta
Written by
Pamela Katz, Margarethe von Trotta
Produced by
Bettina Brokemper
