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Hannah Arendt

Her ideas changed the world

  • Movie
  • 2012
  • NR
  • 1h 53m

Directed by Margarethe von Trotta

6.9

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6.9 out of 10 from 299 votes

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Overview

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 and crew

  • Barbara Sukowa

    Barbara SukowaHannah Arendt

  • Axel Milberg

    Axel MilbergHeinrich Blücher

  • Janet McTeer

    Janet McTeerMary McCarthy

  • Julia Jentsch

    Julia JentschLotte Köhler

  • Nicholas Woodeson

    Nicholas WoodesonWilliam Shawn

  • Ulrich Noethen

    Ulrich NoethenHans Jonas

  • Leila SchausLaureen

  • Claire Johnston

    Claire JohnstonMs Serkin

  • Michael Degen

    Michael DegenKurt Blumenfeld

  • Friederike Becht

    Friederike BechtYoung Hannah Arendt

  • Victoria Trauttmansdorff

    Victoria TrauttmansdorffCharlotte Beradt

  • Klaus Pohl

    Klaus PohlMartin Heidegger

  • Gilbert Johnston

    Gilbert JohnstonProfessor Kahn

Director
Margarethe von Trotta
Writer
Margarethe von Trotta and Pamela Katz
Music
André Mergenthaler
Cinematography
Caroline Champetier