Film Screening: ‘Hannah Arendt’.
Hannah Arendt (2012, Directed by Margarethe von Trotta) charts the life of German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt.
The film centres on Arendt’s response to the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann, which she covered for the New Yorker. Her writing on the trial became controversial for its depiction of both Eichmann and the Jewish councils, and for its introduction of Arendt’s now-famous concept of “the banality of evil”.