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Hannah Arendt

Her ideas changed the world

2012 · NR · 1h 53m

Directed by Margarethe von Trotta

6.9

TMDB audience score
300 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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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