Hannah Arendt (2013)


"An intense look at the trouble life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. It deals with her American personal experiences , as in 1950, Hanna (Barbara Sukowa) became a naturalized citizen of the United States along with her husband Heinrich Blucher (Axel Milberg). Arendt served as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, and Northwestern University. In the spring of 1959, she became the first woman lecturer at Princeton; Arendt also taught at the University of Chicago, The New School in Manhattan and Yale University. Furthermore, in the movie appears some flashbacks about her relationship with Martin Heidegger (Klaus Pohl). Hanna was was a German-American political theorist as well as a prestigious philosopher. Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism."
IMDb
New Yorker: “Hannah Arendt” and the Glorification of Thinking
W - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Democracy Now: "Hannah Arendt" Revisits Fiery Debate over German-Jewish Theorist’s Coverage of Eichmann Trial
W - Hannah Arendt
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
YouTube:  By Margarethe von Trotta - Trailer (HQ), Hannah Arendt - Final Speech
YouTube: Hannah Arendt "Zur Person" Full Interview (with English subtitles) 1:00:26

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