Hannah Arendt

Barbara Sukowa

Strong biopic covering the time when HA went to Jerusalem to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. She was a prominent German refugee/intellectual teaching in NYC and was sent by the New Yorker magazine. Her five-part series caused great backlash in the Jewish community because she said Eichmann was a nobody, a bureaucrat, not the monster anti-Nazi propaganda had made him out to be.

Another good performance by BS...her Arendt was stiff, prickly, arrogant and, as time revealed, right. The episode had a major impact on her life...she lost friends, was shunned by colleagues, etc. The film stands as an indictment of groupthink and the price paid by someone who sees the unpopular truth.

Effective use of actual footage of the trial.

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