Hannah Arendt (2013) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

2013 · 113 min · German

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Starring

Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Julia Jentsch, Barbara Sukowa, Janet McTeer, Nicholas Woodeson, Axel Milberg

The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt flees Nazi Germany and finds refuge in America, where she works as a journalist and academic. In 1951, she becomes an American citizen. A decade later, she travels to Israel as a reporter for The New Yorker to cover the trial of SS officer Adolf Eichmann. Her observations and analysis of the proceedings are documented in her influential book, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," which sparked considerable controversy and debate.