HANNAH ARENDT

Production - Heimatfilm, Les Productions de l'Amour Fou, MACT Productions, Sophie Dulac Productions,Metro Communications, ARD Degeto Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk

In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher of Jewish origin, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, Arendt concludes that Eichmann was not a monster, but an ordinary man who had thoughtlessly buried his conscience through his obedience to the Nazi regime and its ideology. Arendt's expansion of this idea, presented in her articles for 'The New Yorker', would create her concept of „the banality of evil“.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

European Film Awards ’13 – Nominated for European Actress

Margarethe von Trotta

German director, born in 1942 in Berlin. After the Munich drama school, she began to work in German theatres. In 1970, she worked on The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach as a writer and actress. Two years later, as leading actress in Volker Schlondorff’s film Strohfeuer, she received the German Critic’s Prize. Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum in 1975 was her debut as a film director, shot together with her husband at that time Schlondorff (with whom she lives from 1971 to 1991). With her works Margarethe von Trotta has made film-making history. Among them are UNICEF and SIGNIS awards for Rosa Luxemburg, as well as “Golden Lion” and FIPRESCI award for Marianne and Juliane. She was nominated for “Golden Bear” and won OCIC prize for Sheer Madness.

FILMOGRAPHY:

1975 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum) – Co-directed with Volker Schlöndorff
1978 The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Die Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages)
1979 Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder die Balance des Glucks)
1981 Marianne and Julianne (Die Bleierne Zeit)
1983 Friends and Husbands (Heller Wahn)
1986 Rosa Luxemburg (Rosa Luxemburg)
1988 Three Sisters (Paura e amore)
1990 The African Woman (L'Africana)
1993 The Long Silence (Il Lungo silenzio)
1995 The Promise (Das Versprechen)
2003 The Women Оf Rosenstrasse (Rosenstrasse)
2006 I Am the Other Woman (Ich bin die Andere)
2009 Vision (Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen)
2012 Hannah Arendt (Hannah Arendt)

HANNAH ARENDT

Germany-Luxemburg-France, 2012, 113 min.′, color

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Margarethe von Trotta