Hannah Arendt

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-01-10

Languages:

German, English, French, Hebrew, Latin

Countries:

Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (6413 Reviews)

Director:

Margarethe von Trotta

Genres:

Biography Drama

Cast:

Barbara Sukowa Janet McTeer Julia Jentsch Axel Milberg

Writer:

Pamela Katz (screenplay)

Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay)

Pamela Katz

Fullplot:

In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher, Hanna Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war-criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, the Holocaust survivor concludes that Eichmann was not a simple monster, but an ordinary man who thoughtlessly buried his conscience through his obedience to the Nazi Regime and its ideology. Arendt's expansion of this idea through her resulting New Yorker articles would create the concept of the "Banality of Evil" that she thought even sucked in some Jewish leaders of the era into unwittingly participating in the Holocaust. The result is a bitter public controversy in which Arendt is accused of blaming the Holocaust's victims. Now, that strong willed intellectual is forced to defend her daringly innovative ideas about moral complexity in a struggle that will exact a heavy personal cost.

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