https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/Title: Hannah Arendt (2012)
Genres: Biography, Drama
Description: Scappata dagli orrori della Germania nazista, la filosofa ebreo-tedesca Hannah Arendt nel 1940 trova rifugio insieme al marito e alla madre negli Stati Uniti, grazie all'aiuto del giornalista americano Varian Fry. Qui, dopo aver lavorato come tutor universitario ed essere divenuta attivista della comunità ebraica di New York, comincia a collaborare con alcune testate giornalistiche. Come inviata del New Yorker in Israele, Hannah si ritrova così a seguire da vicino il processo contro il funzionario nazista Adolf Eichmann, da cui prende spunto per scrivere La banalità del male, un libro che andrà incontro a molte controversie.
In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, the Holocaust survivor concludes that Eichmann was not a simple 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 the articles for "New Yorker", would create the 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 daringly innovative ideas about moral complexity in a struggle that will exact a heavy personal cost.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Writer: Pamela Katz (screenplay), Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay)
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Axel Milberg
Rating: 7.1
Votes: 9114
Rated: NOT RATED
Runtime: 113 min