Hannah Arendt
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 53m
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta | 113 mins | 2012
In her sixth teaming with von Trotta, a sublime Barbara Sukowa plays philosopher and writer Arendt, in Jerusalem to report on the 1961 trial of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann for the New Yorker—the assignment that will produce her famous coinage “the banality of evil”—and reflect on her own life.
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