CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES & ESSEX TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE NETWORK

FILM SEASON 2013-14

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Hannah Arendt
Directed by Margarethe Von Trotta, Germany, 2012

Behind the horrors of the Nazi concentration cam s !ay an ideo!ogy, a atho!ogica! c"!t of death and an efficient b"rea"cracy, r"n by so!diers and officia!s, #i!!ing and ab!e to organise the trans ortation of mi!!ions across $"ro e to meet their deaths in #ays #hich sti!! cast do"bt on the continent%s c!aims to ossess a ci&i!ized ast' Nazi !eaders #ere condemned at the N"remberg tria!s in 1()*+),, b"t the ne#!y formed state of -srae! contin"ed to "rs"e !esser fig"res and in 1(,0 they !ocated Ado!f $ichmann #ho, as an .. officer, had been res onsib!e for organising the de ortation of /e#s from $astern $"ro e' He #as "t on tria! in /er"sa!em, fo"nd g"i!ty of crimes against h"manity and hanged in 1(,2' Hannah Arendt re orted the tria! for T#e Ne* +,-.e- magazine and her s"bse0"ent boo1 E/0#(ann /n Je-1sa2e(3 s"btit!ed A Re',-" ,n "#e )ana2/" ,4 E5/2 dea!t #ith the dee !y tro"b!ing im !ications of #hat the tria! re&ea!ed of the 2ordinariness% of $ichmann and his !i1e' Von Trotta%s fi!m te!!s the story Arendt%s e3 erience of the $ichmann tria! and of the contro&ersy that her conc!"sions aro"sed'

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