Hannah Arendt

About Hannah Arendt

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.

Hannah Arendt is a 2012 drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Released in September 2012, it runs 113 minutes.

The film is filed under trial, holocaust (shoah), magazine, and jerusalem.

Barbara Sukowa stars as Hannah Arendt, Axel Milberg as Heinrich Blücher, Janet McTeer as Mary McCarthy, and Julia Jentsch as Lotte Köhler. The screenplay is by Margarethe von Trotta and Pamela Katz. It comes from ARD Degeto and Heimatfilm. It streams on Chai Flicks in the United States.

Schindler's List, The Pianist, and The Zone of Interest make useful companions to Hannah Arendt, all filed under biography and nazi. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 297 votes and it carries a NR rating.