Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Metacritic69/100
296 audience votes
Key crew
- André MergenthalerOriginal Music Composer
- Pamela KatzScreenplay
- Margarethe von TrottaScreenplay
- Margarethe von TrottaDirector
Cast
- Barbara SukowaHannah Arendt
- Axel MilbergHeinrich Blücher
- Janet McTeerMary McCarthy
- Julia JentschLotte Köhler
- Nicholas WoodesonWilliam Shawn
- Ulrich NoethenHans Jonas
- Leila SchausLaureen
- Claire JohnstonMs Serkin
- Michael DegenKurt Blumenfeld
- Friederike BechtYoung Hannah Arendt
- Victoria TrauttmansdorffCharlotte Beradt
- Klaus PohlMartin Heidegger