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Mention of the name Hannah Arendt (1906–75) is still guaranteed to result in prolonged arguments in some intellectual circles today. Most famous for her coinage of the term the banality of evil to describe the mentality of the Nazis, she was one of the most important philosophers and thinkers of the 20th century. While Arendt was a protégé and onetime lover of philosopher Martin Heidegger, the focus of this film is narrow. Except for a few flashbacks, acclaimed feminist filmmaker von Trotta limits her narrative to a few years in the early 1960s when Arendt covered the Adolf...Log In or Sign Up to Read More