Genre: Drama
Director: Margarethe Von Trotta
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Alex Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen and Michael Degen
Writers: Pam Katz, Margarethe Von Trotta
Rating: PG
Run Time: 113 min
Synopsis
Written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta, New German
Cinema's most venerated female filmmaker, Hannah
Arendt is as compelling and polarising as its
eponymous protagonist. Arendt, masterfully played by Barbara
Sukowa, is sent by The New Yorker to cover the trial
of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. The article generates a storm of
criticism by the intellectual and Jewish communities, labelling her
cold, heartless and a self-hating Jew. Von Trotta's vision of
Arendt offers understanding into the formulation of her ideas - in
particular what Arendt termed 'the banality of evil' - which later
culminated in her seminal thesis of the same name.