Where to Watch Hannah Arendt (2012) in the US

What it's about

In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher of Jewish origin, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, Arendt concludes that Eichmann was not a 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 her articles for 'The New Yorker', would create her 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 ideas in a struggle that will exact a heavy personal cost.

Cast and crew

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Writer

Pamela Katz, Margarethe von Trotta

Starring

Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer

Details

Release date

Jan 10, 2013

Language

German, English, French, Hebrew, Latin

Country

Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel

Box office

$717,205

Awards

7 wins & 18 nominations

Where to Watch Hannah Arendt (2012) in the US — common questions

Where to watch Hannah Arendt in the United States?

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Watch the movie free with a participating library card on hoopla and Kanopy (HD).