PAM KATZ

HANNAH ARENDT (2014)

Starring Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg and Janet McTeer. Directed by Margarethe Von Trotta.

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 trail in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one had ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attached by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré struggles to supress 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.