Hannah Arendt

HANNAH ARENDT is 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 �migr� 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.