Hannah Arendt 2012

HANNAH ARENDT is 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.

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