6.8
The Devil's Arithmetic
1999
Her ideas changed the world
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.
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.
Barbara SukowaHannah Arendt
Axel MilbergHeinrich Blücher
Janet McTeerMary McCarthy
Julia JentschLotte Köhler
Nicholas WoodesonWilliam Shawn
Ulrich NoethenHans Jonas
Claire JohnstonMs Serkin
Michael DegenKurt Blumenfeld
Friederike BechtYoung Hannah Arendt
Victoria TrauttmansdorffCharlotte Beradt
Klaus PohlMartin Heidegger
Gilbert JohnstonProfessor Kahn
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