See “Hannah Arendt” for the Sukowa, If Not the Full Story

Michael van Baker — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:13:37 +0000

For Arendt, Eichmann was an edge case that demonstrated how normal people could not think about the Holocaust as it occurred. Here was a man whose job it was to know, and who nonetheless could, burying himself in the minutiae of genocide, feel no remorse as a consequence of his actions.

It’s the Elles of Cinema, at SIFF

Michael van Baker — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:57:28 +0000

Opening night, for instance, offers you the chance to take in an erotic sci-fi thriller along with a film about Hannah Arendt's coverage of the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann for the New Yorker. Director Margarethe von Trotta and actor Barbara Sukowa were "remarkably successful" say the Hollywood Reporter in their attempt to dramatize the juridical process that led Arendt to coin her phrase, "the banality of evil."

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See “Hannah Arendt” for the Sukowa, If Not the Full Story

It’s the Elles of Cinema, at SIFF