HANNAH ARENDT (12A) 2013 GERMANY TROTTA, MARGARETHE VON £17.99
In this drama based on a true story, Barbara Sukowa stars as the
German-American political theorist who caused a storm of controversy
with her views on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann.
Sent to Israel in 1961 to cover the trial for ‘The New Yorker’ magazine,
Arendt (Sukawa), a Jew who fled Germany during Hitler’s rise to power,
provokes fury with her portrayals of both Eichmann and his captors,
incurring the wrath of the Jewish world when she introduces her concept
of ‘the banality of evil’, arguing that the great evils in history, and
in particular the Holocaust, were not committed by monsters, but by
ordinary people who were simply conditioned by the state. As she
attempts to justify her stance, Arendt finds herself the centre of a
political storm, whilst at the same time coming under increasing
pressure from those closest to her.
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