Hannah Arendt

– Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 53 Minutes
Release Year:
2012
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (2012)

Hannah Arendt is 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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Release Date:

10 Jan 2013

Language:

German, English, French, Hebrew, Latin

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt
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Plot:

In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, the Holocaust survivor concludes that Eichmann was not a simple monster, but an ordinary man who had thoughtlessly buried his conscience through his obedience to the Nazi regime and its ideology. Arendt's expansion of this idea, presented in the articles for "New Yorker", would create the concept of "the banality of evil" that she thought even sucked in some Jewish leaders of the era into unwittingly participating in the Holocaust. The result is a bitter public controversy in which Arendt is accused of blaming the Holocaust's victims. Now that strong willed intellectual is forced to defend her daringly innovative ideas about moral complexity in a struggle that will exact a heavy personal cost.

Awards:

5 wins & 17 nominations.

Gross profit:

$411,530

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Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
Metacritic:
69%

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