{"id":28597,"date":"2025-05-23T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=28597"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:44:26","slug":"hannah-arendt","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/hannah-arendt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Arendt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to portray a person whose job it is to think \u2013 this is the challenge von Trotta tackles in her biopic of the philosopher Hannah Arendt. Slipping inside Arendt\u2019s skin is the amazing Barbara Sukowa, who also played the leading role in the director\u2019s films about Rosa Luxemburg and Hildegard von Bingen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film begins when the Israeli secret service arrests wanted Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960. Having migrated to the United States, the German Jew Arendt offers to write about Eichmann\u2019s trial for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Yorker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In Eichmann, Arendt sees no Mephistopheles but a regular person, a bureaucrat who was just following orders. For a thinker, an individual who is incapable of independent thought is horrifying. Arendt\u2019s series of articles causes an enormous scandal, and old friends turn their backs on her. The philosopher is accused of defending Eichmann, even though in her view she was only trying to understand how his mediocrity and monstrous crimes fit together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dense political drama is built mainly on dialogues between the main character and her spouse, close friends, and opponents, while flashbacks to pre-1933 Germany illuminate Arendt\u2019s relationship to her mentor Martin Heidegger. Arendt\u2019s long monologue towards the end of the film manifests her theory on the banality of evil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>-Kaisu Isto<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to portray a person whose job it is to think \u2013 this is the challenge von Trotta tackles in her biopic of the philosopher Hannah Arendt. 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