In 1960 Nazi regime criminal Adolf Eichmann is kidnapped and brought to trial in Israel. German-Jewish author andpolitical theoretician Hannah Arendt, who emigrated from Germany and settled down in New York in 1941, attends the trial as a correspondent of The New Yorker. To her surprise, Arendt learns that the defendant is neither monsternor criminal genius but simply a mediocre bureaucrat.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta, 113 min., 2012
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