Hannah Arendt plot
"Her ideas changed the world"
The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) has to leave her homeland (she was born in 1906 in Linden near Hanover). She flees from the Nazis to America, where she works as a journalist and teacher, among other things. In 1951 she received American citizenship. Ten years later, she takes a job at the newspaper 'The New Yorker' and travels as an observer to the trial of the SS man Adolf Eichmann in Israel. She summarizes the results of her findings in a book: 'The Banality of Evil'. In doing so, she unleashes a controversy that receives great attention not only among theorists.