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Hannah Arendt
GERMANY · 2012

Hannah Arendt

Margarethe von Trotta
Holocaust Philosophy and Ethics Nazi War Crimes Intellectual Courage Persecution of Ideas
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Synopsis

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 struggle

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