“Hannah Arendt” coming to the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.
Starts Friday, July 19
Winner: Best Film in Silver & Best Actress, German Film Awards 2013
In the award-winning new biopic Hannah Arendt, acclaimed actress Barbara Sukowa (Veronika Decides to Die) reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta (Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen) for a gripping look at the influential and provocative German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Hannah Arendt’s reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker – controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils – introduced her now-famous concept of the “Banality of Evil.”
Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta skillfully transforms the often invisible passion for intellectual thought into immersive, dramatic and compelling cinema.
An Official Selection at the Toronto International and New York Jewish Film Festivals, Hannah Arendt also co-stars Klaus Pohl as philosopher Martin Heidegger, Nicolas Woodeson as New Yorker editor William Shawn and two-time Oscar Nominee Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs) as novelist Mary McCarthy. (Dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, 2012, Germany, in German with subtitles, 113 mins., Zeitgeist Films) Digital
Check out this fascinating film about a German-American woman reporting on a very crucial trial in post-WWII Germany. Read more about this political theorist here.
And watch the trailer of this emotionally charged film, which opens on Friday July 19, with two showings at 12 noon (theater 2 upstairs), and 5:10 p.m. (the large theater 1).
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