Hannah Arendt

Closing Night! New York Premiere!

Star Barbara Sukowa and screenwriter Pam Katz in person!

This screening is currently Standby Only. A standby line will form at the box office one hour prior to showtime. Tickets may be release to the line on a first come, first serve basis.

This biopic covers a tumultuous four-year period in the life of the great philosopher and writer Hannah Arendt (brilliantly played by Barbara Sukowa). The film starts in New York at the New School, where Arendt taught after having escaped from a French detention camp, and moves on to Jerusalem, where she covered the trial of Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker. The German director Margarethe von Trotta (Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse) makes stirring drama of the backlash against Arendt’s writing about the trial and her “banality of evil” theory. Co-starring Janet McTeer as bestselling author and Arendt confident Mary McCarthy.