Hannah Arendt (2013)
84%RT Audience Score: 75%
Awards & Nominations: 6 wins & 18 nominations
Led by a powerful performance from Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Arendt does a commendable job of dramatizing the life of a complex public figure
Hannah Arendt is like a history lesson, but with a cool teacher who makes you want to learn more. It’s not just a movie about a philosopher, it’s a movie about a person who stood up for what she believed in, even when it wasn’t popular. Plus, Barbara Sukowa is amazing as Hannah Arendt – she makes philosophy look sexy. Overall, it’s a thought-provoking film that will make you want to read more books and maybe even start a revolution.
Production Company(ies)
Brooksfilms
Distributor
Zeitgeist
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
Year of Release
2013
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 1
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Runtime:1h 53m
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Language(s):German, English, French, Hebrew, Latin
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): May 29, 2013 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 14, 2014
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Barbara Sukowa, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, written by Margarethe von Trotta and Pam Katz, drama, box office gross $714.4K, German language, philosopher, Eichmann trial, New Yorker magazine, intellectual, banality of evil, complex public figure, critic reviews, producer Zeitgeist, MPAA rating N/A, Hannah Arendt, Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen, Michael Degen, Heinrich Blücher, Mary McCarthy, Lotte, Hans Jonas, Kurt Blumenfeld
Worldwide gross: $8,880,936
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $11,281,880
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,934
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 1,230,303
US/Canada gross: $717,205
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $911,100
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,210
US/Canada opening weekend: $31,270
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $39,724
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,272
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Axel Milberg – Heinrich Blücher
Janet McTeer – Mary McCarthy
Julia Jentsch – Lotte
Ulrich Noethen – Hans Jonas
Michael Degen – Kurt Blumenfeld
Director(s)
Margarethe von Trotta
Writer(s)
Margarethe von Trotta, Pam Katz
Producer(s)
NA
Film Festivals
Venice, Toronto
Awards & Nominations
6 wins & 18 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (73) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (9)
It is an absolute treasure to see and inspires its viewers to return to the literature of this lauded thinker.
January 14, 2021
Mary Creighton
Bitch Media
TOP CRITIC
Von Trotta, however, smartly focuses on a brief, pivotal moment in Arendt’s career…
March 24, 2020
Bilge Ebiri
Spirituality & Health
TOP CRITIC
This all may sound all very heavy, but it is important to also point out that Hannah Arendt is also a good movie.
September 26, 2017
Jordan Hoffman
Times of Israel
TOP CRITIC
Hannah Arendt is ultimately a pleasure, because Sukowa plays the most forbidding of intellectuals as a fabulous, passionate doll.
December 31, 2015
J. Hoberman
Tablet
TOP CRITIC
It’s refreshing to find a film inspired by challenging ideas, and Von Trotta and her team are to be congratulated for bringing Arendt’s story to the screen
March 12, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
David Stratton
At the Movies (Australia)
TOP CRITIC
Sukowa is a supple and brave actress; getting inside Arendt’s arguments is the hardest and if the film only succeeds sometimes, that is still a major achievement. Very few films in this era would have dared.
March 12, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/5
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald
TOP CRITIC
Thoughtful, fierce and imperfect, Hannah Arendt runs a bit long, but is an inspiring slice of history that might just convince you to go out and read one of its subject’s books.
February 26, 2019
Molly Templeton
Eugene Weekly (OR)
Von Trotta’s film is neither profound, nor radical. It belongs to that grand dramatic tradition that trivialises and sentimentalises history until all that’s left is a series of generic conventions.
January 8, 2019
Tara Judah
Overland
Philosophy must be an incredibly difficult thing to translate into film, so I give the filmmakers credit for bringing across Hannah Arendt’s thinking, and that of her opponents, so clearly.
August 27, 2018
Monica Reid
Far Out Magazine
I found [Hannah Arendt] fascinating, though its lecture style may not appeal to some.
August 11, 2017
Sr. Rose Pacatte
National Catholic Reporter
Although the movie etches a rather thin portrait of Arendt, it succeeds in humanizing her as a person, contextualizing her as a theorist, and evoking the courage she showed in airing convictions that often went against the scholarly tenor of her time.
February 28, 2016
David Sterritt
Tikkun
…actors in supporting roles telegraph the controversies surrounding Arendt’s personality as if they were attempting to literally touch the viewer’s nose.
June 2, 2014 | Rating: B-
Landon Palmer
Film School Rejects…
Plot
Hannah Arendt is a drama about the life of writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt, who covers Adolf Eichmann’s war-crimes trial for The New Yorker magazine.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The film stars Barbara Sukowa in a powerful performance as writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt.
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