There’s a refugee crisis in Europe and people around the world are wondering how it came to pass that a totalitarian regime gained power in a democratic system. Sound familiar? That was the world that the stubbornly unclassifiable and brilliantly disruptive German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote about after living through World War II. She famously caused an uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of the "banality of evil" when referring to the trial of high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Her private life was no less controversial, thanks to her early love affair with the renowned German philosopher and Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger. This thought-provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of the whole of Arendt's life, travelling to the places where she wrote about the open wounds of modern times.
In German, English and Hebrew, with English subtitles.
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