Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany, France, Luxembourg, Israel
Why tonight?
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
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 struggles to suppress 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.
- nazi
- holocaust (shoah)
- jerusalem
- biography
- trial
- magazine
- woman director
- adolf eichmann's trial
- philosopher
The bill
Barbara Sukowa
Hannah Arendt
Axel Milberg
Heinrich Blücher
Janet McTeer
Mary McCarthy
Julia Jentsch
Lotte Köhler
- Nicholas Woodeson — William Shawn
- Ulrich Noethen — Hans Jonas
- Leila Schaus — Laureen
- Claire Johnston — Ms Serkin
- Michael Degen — Kurt Blumenfeld
- Friederike Becht — Young Hannah Arendt
- Victoria Trauttmansdorff — Charlotte Beradt
- Klaus Pohl — Martin Heidegger
- Gilbert Johnston — Professor Kahn
- Directed
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Written
- Pamela Katz, Margarethe von Trotta
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 296 ratings
- Studio
- MACT Productions, Heimatfilm, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Sophie Dulac Productions, Metro Communications, ARD Degeto
If this stayed with you
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