Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt, 2012

Germany, 35mm, Color, 113’, German/ English

Director:Margarethe von Trotta

Cast:Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen

Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, stands trial in Jerusalem in 1960. Renowned philosopher and writer Hannah Arendt watches the trial to report it for the New Yorker. Though she expected a monster, all she sees is a mediocre bureaucrat. Her theory of “the banality of evil,” which she puts forth in her article on the trial, provokes a scandal. Teaming up for the sixth time with her favorite actress Barbara Sukowa, renowned director Margarethe von Trotta presents passages from the life of Hannah Arendt, one of the major thinkers of the last century. Winning Sukowa the Lola award for Best Actress, “Hannah Arendt” was also one of the most acclaimed films of the Istanbul Film Festival this year.