HANNAH ARENDT is 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.
Barbara Sukowa
as Hannah Arendt
Axel Milberg
as Heinrich Blücher
Janet McTeer
as Mary McCarthy
Julia Jentsch
as Lotte Köhler
Nicholas Woodeson
as William Shawn
Ulrich Noethen
as Hans Jonas
Leila Schaus
as Laureen
Claire Johnston
as Ms Serkin
Michael Degen
as Kurt Blumenfeld
Friederike Becht
as Young Hannah Arendt
Victoria Trauttmansdorff
as Charlotte Beradt
Klaus Pohl
as Martin Heidegger
