Hannah Arendt

Name: Hannah Arendt
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: May 29, 2013
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Axel Milberg, Barbara Sukowa, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Klaus Pohl

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: May 29, 2013 | Not Rated

Starring: Axel Milberg, Barbara Sukowa, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Klaus Pohl, Michael Degen, Nicholas Woodeson, Ulrich Noethen, Victoria Trauttmansdorff

Summary: A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 113 min

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A.O. Scott

May 28, 2013

Hannah Arendt conveys the glamour, charisma and difficulty of a certain kind of German thought.... The movie turns ideas into the best kind of entertainment. Read full review

Marsha McCreadie

May 28, 2013

The writer-philosopher Hannah Arendt is brought to life by a mesmerizing Barbara Sukowa in Margarethe von Trotta's film. Read full review

Bill Stamets

Aug 15, 2013

Hannah Arendt takes seriously the life of the mind. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jun 6, 2013

Barbara Sukowa's performance in the title role is the kind that reverberates long after the screen goes black. Read full review

Nick Schager

May 29, 2013

Opting to leave somewhat open the question of whether its subject was a traitor to her Jewish people or a conscientious scholar determined to conduct rational analysis free of public and peer pressure, it remains a mildly intriguing drama of the often unavoidable and contentious intersection of intellectual analysis and personal prejudices. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

May 27, 2013

The film's most striking quality, and it's not insignificant, is director Margarethe von Trotta's refusal to fossilize the controversies she dramatizes. Read full review

Robert Koehler

May 10, 2013

Von Trotta’s Arendt biopic feels like a movie stuck in another era, stolid and rote, more of an outline for a dramatic treatment than the real thing. Read full review

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sebastian1

Sep 21, 2013

I find it weird that there are no user reviews for this film, which is one of the very best of the year. Incomparably better than Museum Hours, an okay film which gets an 86 Metascore while Arendt gets a mere 67. All aspects of Arendt are superb: script, direction, cinematography, acting,I find it weird that there are no user reviews for this film, which is one of the very best of the year. Incomparably better than Museum Hours, an okay film which gets an 86 Metascore while Arendt gets a mere 67. All aspects of Arendt are superb: script, direction, cinematography, acting, you name it. And, of course, the subject is one of the most fascinating women of all time. What's not to like?… Expand

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Jul 25, 2013

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Lyn

Feb 5, 2014

I've only read one book by Hannah Arendt -- very cerebral, needless to say. It's fascinating to see a side of her that also touches on her warmth and her marriage and her friendships. Fascinating, also, in this time of the 24-hour news cycle, to think about her take on "the banality of evil"I've only read one book by Hannah Arendt -- very cerebral, needless to say. It's fascinating to see a side of her that also touches on her warmth and her marriage and her friendships. Fascinating, also, in this time of the 24-hour news cycle, to think about her take on "the banality of evil" as personified by Eichmann, and the complexity of trying to explain that to people who demanded a one-dimensional portrait of a monster. Barbara Sukowa -- here middle-aged, dowdy and in the ugliest of '60s wardrobes -- gives a performance of great subtlety and humanity. A thought-provoking film.… Expand

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LowbrowCinema

Dec 26, 2014

Finally caught up with Margarethe von Trotta's absolutely wonderful HANNAH ARENDT. Anchored by a perfect performance from Barbara Sukowa, HANNAH ARENDT is a truly rare accomplishment--a film that seamlessly mingles the personal and professional while totally zeroing in on Arendt'sFinally caught up with Margarethe von Trotta's absolutely wonderful HANNAH ARENDT. Anchored by a perfect performance from Barbara Sukowa, HANNAH ARENDT is a truly rare accomplishment--a film that seamlessly mingles the personal and professional while totally zeroing in on Arendt's philosophical conceptions. So many films about artists, great thinkers have failed in capturing the human being behind the art or in the opposite direction, ignoring the philosophy to depict the personal only. In HANNAH ARENDT all is combined magnificently, providing a 360 degree view of a truly great human being and showing us how the personal, political, and professional are all combined.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Jan 17, 2021

(Mauro Lanari)
The Milgram experiment was a social psychology experiment conducted at Yale in July 1961, three months after the trial in Jerusalem of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann began. Stanley Milgram conceived the experiment as an attempt to answer the question: "Is it possible that(Mauro Lanari)
The Milgram experiment was a social psychology experiment conducted at Yale in July 1961, three months after the trial in Jerusalem of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann began. Stanley Milgram conceived the experiment as an attempt to answer the question: "Is it possible that Eichmann and his millions of accomplices were simply carrying out orders?" The answer that emerged is articulated in pyramidal, hierarchical, organizational form: as long as one is subjected to some authoritarian figure, one delegates the moral responsibility of the order, except for that 37% to whom in '86 Peter Gabriel dedicated a song from the album "So", "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)"; the gregarious syndrome of the most obeys regardless, so it is enough to behead the decision makers, the ruling class, the intellectual elite of the vanquished, just as the winners took care to do in the farce trial of Nuremberg, and replace / substitute them with the newcomers. It was proved that Eichmann fell into this second category and therefore was sentenced to death by hanging. In the book of '63, Arendt does not apply such a distinction and limits herself to coining the label "the banality of evil", not facing the ingenuity highlighted by those who knew how to conceive, organize and command that evil. The film sucks because it never mentions any of this.… Expand

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Broyax

Apr 5, 2017

Cette émigrée juive aux Etats-Unis est une théoricienne du mal et notamment du mal nazi qui a provoqué l'holocauste ; elle a tenté de comprendre et d'expliquer le comportement d'Eichmann, impliqué dans la déportation et le massacre d'innombrables Juifs pendant la guerre et ses travaux ontCette émigrée juive aux Etats-Unis est une théoricienne du mal et notamment du mal nazi qui a provoqué l'holocauste ; elle a tenté de comprendre et d'expliquer le comportement d'Eichmann, impliqué dans la déportation et le massacre d'innombrables Juifs pendant la guerre et ses travaux ont suscité une certaine indignation sans doute parce qu'elle n'avait pas sorti son pupitre-hommage et brûlé suffisamment de cierges. Et surtout parce qu'elle a dit que les Juifs déportés auraient dû davantage résister... et qu'elle a mis en cause le comportement de certains (Juifs). Tollé général. Mais je schématise.

On peut très bien aller sur la page wiki ou se référer à moult documentaires sur le procès Eichmann en Israel et se passer totalement de ce film parfaitement inutile, barbant et rasoir et qui n'apporte strictement rien, à part servir de somnifère très vaguement audio-visuel mais, reconnaissons-le, d'une redoutable efficacité pour pioncer et se faire chier, brasser du vide et enfoncer des portes ouvertes.

Il ne s'agit même pas d'un "bon" documentaire aussi scolaire et bas du front fût-il (et futil soit-il)) et les deux plombes ne sont qu'un courant d'air tiède au cours duquel une mamie avec un accent allemand à couper au couteau s'égosille en anglais et déblatère ses théories abstraites sur la mécanique du génocide. Ni fait ni à faire donc.… Expand

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