Hannah Arendt

Her ideas changed the world

6.9
20121h 53m

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

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Barbara Sukowa

Hannah Arendt

Photo of Axel Milberg

Axel Milberg

Heinrich Blücher

Photo of Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer

Mary McCarthy

Photo of Julia Jentsch

Julia Jentsch

Lotte Köhler

Photo of Nicholas Woodeson

Nicholas Woodeson

William Shawn

Photo of Ulrich Noethen

Ulrich Noethen

Hans Jonas

Photo of Michael Degen

Michael Degen

Kurt Blumenfeld

Photo of Friederike Becht

Friederike Becht

Young Hannah Arendt

Photo of Victoria Trauttmansdorff

Victoria Trauttmansdorff

Charlotte Beradt

Photo of Klaus Pohl

Klaus Pohl

Martin Heidegger

Photo of Gilbert Johnston

Gilbert Johnston

Professor Kahn

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