Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt

Margarethe von Trotta
Year of release in Luxembourg 2013
Year of release in Luxembourg 2013
Director Margarethe von Trotta
Luxembourg producer AMOUR FOU LUXEMBOURG
In co-production with
  • Heimatfilm (DE)
  • MACT Productions (FR)
  • Metro Communications (IL)
Script Pamela Katz, Margarethe von Trotta
Original version
  • German
  • English
Duration 113 minutes
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Cast and crew
Cast

    Barbara Sukowa
    Janet McTeer
    Axel Milberg
    Julia Jentsch
    Ulrich Noethen
    Michael Degen
    Klaus Pohl
    Sascha Ley
    Patrick Hastert
    Germain Wagner
    Tom Leick-Burns
    Marie Jung
    Pitt Simon
    Leila Schaus
    Nilton Martins
    Gilbert Johnston
    Alexandre Hornbeck
    Clyde Prescod

Crew

    Camera: Caroline Champetier

    Editing: Bettina Böhler

    Sound: Michael Busch

    Production design: Volker Schäfer

    Costume design: Frauke Firl

    Music : André Mergenthaler

    Stills Photographer : Véronique Kolber

    Puller: Carlo Thiel

    Grip: Jean-Francois Roqueplo


    Property master : Sasha Milutinovic


    Line Producer: Sascha Verhey, Rüdiger Jordan, Mickey Rabinovich

    Production Manager: André Fetzer

    Unit Manager: Philipp Reimer, Laura Einmahl

Synopsis

NY 1960. When the world-famous philosopher Hannah Arendt hears about the capture of Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann, she decides to travel to Jerusalem to report on his trial for ‘The New Yorker’. Her friends warn her to stay but she wants to confront herself with the past, having survived a concentration camp herself. When she publishes her articles and coins the term ‘banality of evil’, a global outcry of indignation is the result. Most of the world sees Eichmann as a monster and is appalled at Arendt’s unemotional approach and interpretation of history. Her life, name and reputation are under threat.

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