

Her ideas changed the world
September 11, 2012
1h 53m
DE
Margarethe von Trotta
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.

Barbara Sukowa
Hannah Arendt

Axel Milberg
Heinrich Blücher

Janet McTeer
Mary McCarthy



Margarethe von Trotta, Pamela Katz
289
Julia Jentsch
Lotte Köhler

Nicholas Woodeson
William Shawn

Ulrich Noethen
Hans Jonas

Leila Schaus
Laureen

Claire Johnston
Ms Serkin

Michael Degen
Kurt Blumenfeld

Friederike Becht
Young Hannah Arendt

MACT Productions
FR

Heimatfilm
DE

Amour Fou Luxembourg
LU

Sophie Dulac Productions
FR

Metro Communications
IL

ARD Degeto
DE

BR
DE

WDR
DE