Hannah Arendt (2012)
Rating: 6.9/10
Duration: 113 min
Year: 2012
Genres: Drama
Director(s): Margarethe von Trotta
Description:
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
- Nicholas Woodeson as William Shawn
- Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt
- Janet McTeer as Mary McCarthy
- Claire Johnston as Ms Serkin
- Ulrich Noethen as Hans Jonas
- Julia Jentsch as Lotte Köhler
- Axel Milberg as Heinrich Blücher
- Leila Schaus as Laureen
- Michael Degen as Kurt Blumenfeld
- Friederike Becht as Young Hannah Arendt
- Victoria Trauttmansdorff as Charlotte Beradt
- Klaus Pohl as Martin Heidegger
- Gilbert Johnston as Professor Kahn
