Hannah Arendt (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Margarethe von Trotta
	Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch
	Country: D, L, F, IL
	Genre: Drama, Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 24.10.2015, Bluray, Original German version
Synopsis: Philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt (Sukowa) reports for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Her point of view is subject to controverse especially in the Jewish communities.
Review: I heard about Hannah Arendt at a time when I read a lot on History. Her point of view on the French revolution was interesting. The story and especially the way the reality of a thinker is translated cinematographically to make the thinking visible and hearable is good. Well, a lot of smoking, a lot of talking and thinking loud with people, with husband Heinrich Blücher (Milberg), with friend Mary McCarthy (McTeer) and with the colleague Lotte Köhler (Jentsch). This episode of her life about the controversy on the justice and guilty people for WWII is quite interesting to me. And as I agree with her point of view that all parties of a conflict must be confronted to the reality and live with it. I have been educated to be a critical mind to anything. Thus it is not because I am French and that many French suffered from the Nazis as well, that I would not blame the collaborators and look for justice. Thus I can understand her position. The directing is particularly good. And her quest for truth by using bare logic is really good. This should be tought to all the journalists and their bosses, so that the news are not biaised as they are in countries like France and Germany.  I would have preferred that the movie is not German so that no one can claim any biais to the message of the movie. Even better it should have been funded in the USA.
Rating: 7 /10