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A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.

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Hannah Arendt
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Mary McCarthy
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Lotte Köhler
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Heinrich Blücher
Timothy Lone ...
News Speaker
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Francis Wells
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William Shawn
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Jonathan Schell
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Hans Jonas
Nilton Martins ...
Student Enrico
Leila Lallali ...
Student Laureen (as Leila Schaus)
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Thomas Miller
Victoria Trauttmansdorff ...
Charlotte Beradt
Sascha Ley ...
Lore Jonas
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Young Hannah Arendt
Fridolin Meinl ...
Young Hans Jonas
Michael Degen ...
Kurt Blumenfeld
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Jenny Blumenfeld
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Rahel Blumenfeld (as Eliana Schejter)
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Rafael Blumenfeld
Patrick Hastert ...
Franz Bruckner
Gad Kaynar ...
Jeckes
Clyde Prescod ...
Freddy
Klaus Pohl ...
Martin Heidegger
Pitt Simon ...
Student Peter
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Elisabeth
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Student Jerry
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Hotel Receptionist
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Lionel Abel
Matthias Bundschuh ...
Norman
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Mrs. Serkin (as Claire Johnston-Cauldwell)
Ralph Morgenstern ...
Moderator
Germain Wagner ...
Siegfried Moses
Gilbert Johnston ...
Professor Kahn (as Gilbert K. Johnston)
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Professor
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Hans-Günter Brünker ...
Journalist (uncredited)
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Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
Alexandre Hornbeck ...
Student (uncredited)
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Irving Howe (uncredited)
Penina Mezei ...
Bride (uncredited)
Radica Vujicin ...
Waitress at the University Canteen (uncredited)

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Margarethe von Trotta

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Pamela Katz ... (screenplay by) (as Pam Katz) &
Margarethe von Trotta ... (screenplay by)

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Cornelia Ackers ... commissioning editor: BR
Michael André ... commissioning editor: WDR
Bettina Brokemper ... producer (produced by)
Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre ... co-producer
Sophie Dulac ... co-producer
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu ... co-producer
Rüdiger Jordan ... line producer
Hans-Wolfgang Jurgan ... commissioning editor: Ard Degeto
Bady Minck ... co-producer
Micky Rabinovitz ... line producer: Israel
Bettina Reitz ... commissioning editor: Ard Degeto
Johannes Rexin ... producer (produced by)
Sabine Schenk ... line producer: New York
David Silber ... co-producer
Birgit Titze ... commissioning editor: Ard Degeto
Sascha Verhey ... line producer
Michel Zana ... co-producer

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André Mergenthaler

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Caroline Champetier ... director of photography

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Bettina Böhler

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Linda Ellwanger ... film lab: ARRI Munich
Denis Faupel ... avid support
Erhard Giesen ... on-line rushes: Farbkult
Hans Hohenwarter ... film lab: ARRI Munich (as Hans Hohenwarther)
Markus Klaff ... digital lab: ARRI Cologne
Christian Littmann ... film lab: ARRI Munich
Günther Mairiedl ... on-line editor
Dirk Meier ... digital colorgrading
Franz Rabl ... film lab: ARRI Munich (as Frans Rabi)
Angela Reedwisch ... film lab: ARRI Munich
Josef Reidinger ... film lab: ARRI Munich
Timon Relitzki ... avid support
Niko Remus ... digital rushes grading
Mark Russell ... assistant editor
Martin Schwertführer ... film lab: ARRI Munich
Undine Simmang ... edit suite: Cine Plus Cologne
Martin Sippel ... film lab: ARRI Munich
Sascha Stiller ... film lab: ARRI Munich
Beate Trathnigg ... film lab: ARRI Munich
Manfred Turek ... digital colorgrading

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Luise Eigner
Bady Minck ... (casting)
Susanne Ritter

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Volker Schäfer ... (as Volker Schaefer)

Art Direction by

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Anja Fromm

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Petra Klimek

Costume Design by

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Frauke Firl

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Bar Barak ... additional makeup artist: Israel
Antje Bockeloh ... hair stylist / makeup artist
Carmit Buzaglo ... additional makeup artist: Israel
Dorit Cohen ... additional makeup artist: Israel
Sigalit Grau ... additional makeup artist: Israel
Nadia Homri ... hair stylist / hair stylist: Crowd Supervisor / makeup artist
Carla Hovenbitzer ... additional hair stylist / additional makeup artist
Ziv Katanov ... makeup artist: Israel
Erwin H. Kupitz ... wigs
Olga Mataisan ... hair stylist: Israel
Sabine May ... additional hair stylist / additional makeup artist
Lisa Meier ... additional hair stylist / additional makeup artist
Katrin Paas ... additional hair stylist / additional makeup artist
Leila Schumacher ... additional hair stylist / additional makeup artist
Katrin Silbernagl-Huber ... additional hair stylist (as Katrin Silbernagel) / additional makeup artist (as Katrin Silbernagel)
Karen Ben Simhom ... additional makeup artist: Israel
Maria Torfeld ... makeup artist: New York
Caroline Torschew ... additional hair stylist / additional makeup artist
Astrid Weber ... hair designer / makeup designer

Production Management

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André Fetzer ... production manager
Christian Pannrucker ... unit manager
Philipp Reimer ... unit manager
Niko Remus ... post-production supervisor
Laura Einmahl ... unit manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Diana Briant ... second assistant director
Ralph Eisenmann ... additional first assistant director (as Ralf Eisenmann)
Victoria Haen ... second second assistant director: Israel
Marcel Just ... first assistant director
Andreas Kutscher ... third assistant director
Corinne Le Hong ... additional first assistant director
Anne Esther Meyer ... assistant director trainee
Christian Musolff ... third assistant director
Eyal Oberwerger ... second assistant director: Israel

Art Department

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Boris Bartholomäus ... construction manager
Lkaus Bienen ... stand-by carpenter
Paul Biwer ... stand-by props
Uli Boettcher ... set dresser
Angela Castro ... painter
Hughes de Maere ... carpenter (as Hugues de Maere)
Hannes Dücker ... set dresser
Tobias Dücker ... set dresser
Jenny Echelmeyer ... set dresser
Simon Empt ... set dresser
Mary Fellows ... art department consultant: New York (as Marry Fellow)
Thomas Ferrandis ... carpenter
Joachim Grundmann ... studio rigging
Frank Halbe ... construction coordinator
Barbara Hartwich ... set dresser
Jürgen Heinen ... construction
Beatrice Jansen ... assistant set decorator
Dorit Janssen ... graphics trainee
Nele Jordan ... assistant production designer
Franziska Kettmann ... art department trainee
Oliver Koch ... set dresser
Daniel Kolarov ... property master
Frinn Lorenz ... carpenter
Delphine Marconato ... painter trainee
Royi Marcos ... assistant art department: Israel
François Mast ... carpenter (as Francois Mast)
Sacha Milutinovic ... stand-by props
Gaby Mocaer ... painter (as Gabi Mocaer)
Bernd Nagel ... painter
Itzik Nofar ... construction coordinator: Israel
Chen Ohayon ... assistant set dresser: Israel
Simone Paintner ... painter
Alessandro Palestro ... assistant set decorator
Paddy Patterson ... carpenter
Daniel Peeck ... property handler / stand-by carpenter
Kim Reding ... painter
Achim Reimann ... painter
Walter Reinhard ... construction
Julie Ridremont ... painter
Luc Ridremont ... carpenter
Marc Ridremont ... painter
Kuli Sander ... art director: Israel (as Kuly Sander)
Lorenzo Sartor ... carpenter
Dieter Schmidt ... carpenter
Manolo Schor ... on-set props: Israel (as Manuel Schor)
Yiftach Shapira ... assistant set dresser: Israel (as Iftach Shapira)
Heike Steen ... additional props design
Uli Tegetmeier ... property designer
Ulrike Veit ... graphic designer
Fabian Verdeur ... painter
Christian Weber ... construction foreman
Arie Weiss ... property master: Israel
Gabriele Winzen ... chief painter (as Gabriele Wintzen)
Dominik Wipperfürth ... construction manager
Petra Maria Wirth ... draftswoman (as Petro-Maria Wirth)
Eli Zioni ... set dresser: Israel (as Eli Zion)

Sound Department

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Adrian Baumeister ... dialogue editor
Michael Busch ... sound recordist
Yoav Damti ... boom operator: Israel
Dominic Fitzgerald ... foley editor (as Domenic Fitzgerald)
Günter Friedhoff ... adr recordist
Babette Fürbringer ... sound stage: Cine Postproduction Munich
Sebastian Gassner ... sound stage: Cine Postproduction Munich
Manfred Gläser ... sound stage: Cine Postproduction Munich
Manni Gläser ... sound post production manager
Rainer Heesch ... dialogue editor / supervising dialogue editor / supervising sound editor
Oliver Held ... boom operator
Andreas Hemberger ... sound stage: Cine Postproduction Munich (as Andi Hemberger)
Beatrix Hengefeld ... adr studio: FFS Synchron
Tatjana Jakob ... adr editor
Simone Jung ... additional boom operator
Jörg Kaiser ... boom operator
Michael Kranz ... re-recording mixer
Thomas Lüdemann ... adr supervisor
Stefan Maiss ... sound stage: Cine Postproduction Munich
Raoul Nadalet ... sound design consultant
Rudi Neuber ... sound stage: Cine Postproduction Munich
Roland Platz ... foley artist / foley editor
Laura Plock ... foley editor
Abi Schneider ... sound stage: Cine Postproduction Munich
Nadja Schulz ... dubbing editor
Peter Schumann ... adr studio: FFS Synchron
Alon Shapira ... boom operator: Israel
Greg Vittore ... sound designer
Wolfi Müller ... sound stage assistant (uncredited)
Uwe Zillner ... foley recordist (uncredited)

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Sebastian Demuth ... visual effects artist: Scope FX Cologne
Beatrix Herling ... visual effects artist: Scope FX Cologne
David Horbach ... visual effects: Espera Productions
Samuel Jørgensen ... visual effects artist: Scope FX Cologne (as Samuel Jorgensen)
Claude Kongs ... visual effects: Espera Productions
Thomas Loeder ... visual effects supervisor
Katja Müller ... additional visual effects: ARRI Munich
Raoul Nadalet ... visual effects: Espera Productions
Oliver Nikelowski ... visual effects artist: Scope FX Cologne
Paul Poetsch ... additional visual effects: ARRI Munich
Roger Richards ... visual effects artist: Scope FX Cologne
Arnold Sakowski ... visual effects producer: Scope FX Cologne
Andrea Theel ... visual effects artist: Scope FX Cologne
Dominik Trimborn ... additional visual effects: ARRI Munich
Jan Herms ... special visual effects unit (uncredited)

Stunts

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Evangelos Grecos ... stunt driver
Ernst Reimann ... stunt coordinator
Evangelos Grecos ... stunt player (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Gidon Albert ... additional electrician: Israel
Frédéric André ... camera equipment: TSF
Tom Ashuach ... best boy grip: Israel (as Tom Ashauch)
Henning Battenfeld ... electrician assistant
Shimon Belfer ... gaffer: Israel (as Simon Belfer)
Liad Berger ... grip: Israel
Cesar Birger ... best boy: Israel (as Ceasar Birger)
Matthias Bäumer ... best boy
James Carman ... plates photographer: New York
Nissim Chefetz ... additional grip: Israel
Alex Cohen ... additional electrician: Israel
Thierry de Segonzac ... camera equipment: TSF
Lior Etrogy ... additional grip: Israel (as Lior Etrogi)
Malki Firer ... video assistant: Israel
Sergei Franklin ... steadicam operator: New York
Hugo 'Lata' Gouveia ... additional electrician
Stefan Grabner ... electrician
Friedhelm Frett Holstein ... additional electrician (as Frett Holstein)
Christian Hölscher ... additional electrician
Daniel Kaluzshky ... additional grip: Israel (as Daniel Kaluzhsky)
Shlomo Kiper ... electrician: Israel
Vitalijus Kiselius ... additional electrician
Tobias Klauke ... second camera operator
Véronique Kolber ... still photographer
Olivier Koos ... electrician assistant
Michael Kopietz ... video assistant
Thomas Korda ... steadicam operator
Robert Lau ... second assistant camera: New York (as Rob Lau)
Knut Maier ... light/grip equipment: Maier Bros.
Philippe Manderscheid ... video assistant
Yana Mitnick ... additional electrician: Israel
Eitan Mizrahi ... additional grip: Israel
David Moreira ... electrician assistant
Patrick Muller ... still photographer
Aleks Sandrine Neumuller ... additional electrician (as Sandrine 'Alex' Neumüller)
Robert Patzelt ... steadicam operator
Thierry Ramanana ... best boy grip
Bruno Raquillet ... second assistant camera
Jean-François Roqueplo ... key grip
Marco Sales ... additional electrician
Claus Scheipers ... additional electrician
Arne Schriever ... additional grip
Amiram Snir ... additional electrician: Israel
Christian Stelling ... additional electrician
Carlo Thiel ... first assistant camera
Yves Philippe Jean Vaucher Antuña De Cocañin ... additional electrician
Grube Venn ... gaffer (as Klaus 'Grube' Venn)
Sebastian Volk ... camera: second unit
Robert Will ... video assistant

Casting Department

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Yael Aviv ... casting: Israel
Colleen Blake ... extras casting: Luxembourg
John Hubbard ... casting
Ros Hubbard ... casting
Meredith Jacobson Marciano ... casting: New York (as Meredith Jacobsen)
Bady Minck ... casting producer
Angi Peters ... extras casting
Diana Briant ... extras casting (uncredited)
Martin Ware ... casting assistant (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Balti Arcadi ... additional wardrobe: Israel
Yaron Arye ... wardrobe: Israel
Ane Bremer ... wardrobe
Jennifer Bublitz ... costume trainee
Michal Dor ... wardrobe: Israel
Rona Doron ... costume designer: Israel
Nicole Duque-Hansmann ... second costume assistant
Ifat Kanfi ... additional wardrobe: Israel
Trü Kobusch ... costume assistant
Carolin Kopietz ... additional wardrobe
Anika Kranz ... additional wardrobe
Daniela Szczodrok ... costume trainee
Angela Wendt ... wardrobe consultant: New York
Sarah Wüthrich ... wardrobe

Location Management

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Zvika Chen ... location manager: Israel (as Zvika Haen) / location scout: Israel (as Zvika Haen)
Ohad Domb ... assistant location manager: Israel
Rüdiger Jordan ... location scout: Germany, Cinematic Places
Steve Mannes ... location assistant
Christian Pannrucker ... location manager / location scout: Luxembourg
Bob Reding ... location assistant (as Bob Luc Reding)
Robert Schlungs ... assistant location manager
Didier Vitry ... location assistant
Christiane Zietzer ... location manager

Script and Continuity Department

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Silke Christina Engler ... script/continuity

Transportation Department

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Ilan Appel ... production driver: Israel
Robert Braun ... driver: props
Ralf Christiansen ... production driver
David Friedewald ... production driver
Marian Gallo ... production driver
Andrè Haskamp ... driver: props
Bernard Heider ... production driver
Evyatar Karavani ... production driver: Israel
Dominik Leurs ... production driver
Michael Roberts ... production driver
Rubey Star ... transportation manager: Israel (as Ruby Star)
Florian Wagner ... driver: props
Günter Warnke ... production driver
Eli Zioni ... action vehicles: Israel (as Eli Zion)
Nicolai Schah ... driver: props (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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David Armati Lechner ... production assistant
Ayala Aroyo ... production assistant: Israel
Slonim Ashkenazi ... insurance broker
Eli Aspan ... accountant: Israel
Tanja Baum ... travel agent
Maria Bevacqua ... craft service
Manfred Breuersbrock ... historical research
Andreas Brey ... financing: DZBank
Nuno Fernando De Almeida Cardoso ... set runner (as Nuno Cardoso)
Gilda Cavazza ... production coordinator
Franck Celton ... accountant
Asli Ciyow ... production assistant
Marco Claude ... auditor: Grant Thornton Luxaudit
Christophe Clavert ... assistant to producers
Mario Filipe Cruz ... set runner (as Ma*aacute;rio Filipe Cruz)
Sandor Czirjak ... horse wrangler
Patrick Eaton ... production assistant: New York
Martin Eichhorn ... titles: PAQT
Mirjam Erdem ... production assistant
Silke Erhan ... auditor: PWC Germany
Laura Ettel ... assistant to producers
Sara Fischer ... assistant to producers
Iftach Gabay ... camp manager: Israel (as Iftach Gabbay)
Amit Goodman ... camp worker: Israel
Franz Gossler ... insurance broker
Alain Gross ... legal advisor: Amour Fou
Spartek Hamis ... camp worker: Israel (as Spartak Hamis)
Maria Herpich ... production coordinator
Sascha Heyar ... set runner
Will Jackson ... production assistant: New York
Geraldine Jourdan ... assistant to producers (as Géraldine Jourdan-Blain)
Claudia Coreen Kaiser ... production controller
Michel Kasel ... insurance broker
Uria Kedem ... camp worker: Israel
Anya Kirzner ... water girl: Israel
Nina Kunze ... production trainee / set runner
Johannes Lehmann ... tax advisor
Rodolfo Mantovani ... set runner (as Rodolfo Mantovani Pazini)
Andra Maria Matresu ... assistant accountant
Marc Meyers ... financing: Banque Internationale a Luxembourg
Michael Naguib ... travel agent
Denis Nikolaev ... camp worker: Israel
Alfred Noll ... legal advisor: Amour Fou (as Alfred J. Noll)
Heike Panzer ... craft service
Paulo Perreira ... security
Nuno Pimenta ... set runner (as Nino G. B. Pimenta)
Dirk Poppendieck ... legal advisor: Heimatfilm (as Dr. Dirk Poppendieck)
Sebastian Püttner ... assistant to producers
Oliver Rebling ... accountant
Jan Recht ... set assistant
Nickolas Rodwell ... set runner
Sven Rosenkranz ... set manager
Karen Rudolph ... public relations: Germany
Pablo Sanchez ... tax advisor
Khalil Sarr ... security
Sindy Schmeisser ... financing: DZ Bank
Lies Schumandl ... production controller
Evelyne Schweitzer ... production administrator
Sixt Shlomo ... car rental: Car Motion Service
Maria Sobecki-Grimm ... cook
Ute Springer ... public relations: Luxembourg
Laure Stachnik ... legal advisor: Amour Fou
Claudia Stanetty ... production controller
Nikolaj Stavenhagen ... cook
Keren Sternfeld ... script supervisor: Israel
Frank Stoltz ... financial consultant: KPMG
Isa Streppel ... production assistant
Christoph Szonn ... auditor: LFA Bayern
Carlos Miguel Talhhadas Angelos ... security
Désirée Thilgen ... accountant (as Desirée Thilges)
Jean Edmond Cédric Tinancourt ... security
Martin Wiebel ... dramatic advisor
Michal Wintroib ... production coordinator: Israel
Ramona Wolff ... set runner
Tali Yaakov ... assistant to producer: Israel
Jim Dobson ... publicist (uncredited)

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Florian Ballhaus ... thanks
Christina Bentlage ... thanks
Petra Müller ... thanks
Michael Schmid-Ospach ... thanks
Wallace Shawn ... special thanks

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Plot Summary

In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher of Jewish origin, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, Arendt concludes that Eichmann was not a 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 her articles for 'The New Yorker', would create her 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 ideas in a struggle that will exact a heavy personal cost. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

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Also Known As
  • 汉娜·阿伦特 (China, Mandarin title)
  • ハンナ・アーレント (Japan, Japanese title)
  • Hannah Arendt y la banalidad del mal (Argentina)
  • Ханна Арендт (Russia)
  • 漢娜鄂蘭:真理無懼 (Taiwan)
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  • 113 min
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Trivia For a deeper understanding of this story, one might care to watch Operation Finale (2018), which depicts the undercover mission to find and extract Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and bring him to trial in Israel. Showing the background of an operation sanctioned by PM David Ben-Gurion, the film gives a glimpse of the complexity of Eichman's character, his futile attempts to justify his actions and tell his side of the story. See more »
Goofs 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. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Hannah Arendt (2013). See more »
Soundtracks Sherry Lane See more »
Quotes Hannah Arendt: You describe a book I never wrote.
Siegfried Moses: A book that will never be allowed in Israel. And won't appear anywhere else either if you have any decency left.
Hannah Arendt: You ban books, and lecture me about decency!
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