Goofs

Arendt's article "Eichmann in Jerusalem" was published in five installments in the New Yorker. As Hans Jonas and others read the most infamous passages from "Eichmann in Jerusalem," they are holding the issue of the New Yorker that contained the first installment (February 16, 1963). However, the offending sections appeared in later installments, particularly no. 3 (March 2, 1963).

Throughout the movie, the interior settings reveal that the movie was filmed in Germany and not in New York. Arendt's kitchen contains some vintage German-style appliances, not exclusively vintage American ones. The university lecture hall where Arendt defends herself has a German style of interior architecture, not an American one. The faculty dining hall is also designed and decorated in a German or European style, not an American one as one would have expected at an American university in 1963.

When Arendt stands on the terrace of her hotel in Jerusalem at looks across the Valley of Hinnom at the Old City, there are Israel flags flying from the Tower of David complex. However, the Old City of Jerusalem was still under Jordanian control in 1961.