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7:45 PM

German Film Forum 2016 - A Man Can Make a Difference

Film|Hannah Arendt

  • Hong Kong Film Archive Cinema, Hong Kong

  • All films are shown with English subtitles (except for English dialogues)
  • Ticket price: HK$60/$30*(full time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above and people with disabilities and minders and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients)

nn Hannah Arendt

Director: Margarethe von Trotta, Germany /Luxembourg /France, 2012, 110 mins, I
Awards:
2013 German Film Awards: Film Award in Gold – Best Actress, Film Award in Silver – Outstanding Feature Film
2013 Bavarian Film Awards – Best Actress

The film portrays Hannah Arendt, the famous German-American political theorist, during the four years (1960-1964) that she observes, writes, and endures the furious reception for her work about the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. In the report that she wrote for The New Yorker, she introduced the phrase “banality of evil” to describe Eichmann, raising the question of whether evil is simply a function of thoughtlessness. Watching Arendt as she attends the trial, staying by her side as she is both barraged by her critics and supported by a tight band of loyal friends, we experience the intensity of this powerful Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany in 1933.