FILMSCORE

HANNAH ARENDT: FACING TYRANNY

Directors: Jeff Bieber & Chana Gazit

Music: Florian Tessloff

After a long time, a feature film is once again dedicated to the important philosopher Hannah Arendt – activist, media personality and fearless thinker. Original quotes from Arendt's essays and letters, recited by Nina Hoss, and atmospheric archive footage create an intimate portrait of an intellectual whose life was shaped by the experience of Hitler's fascism and the incomprehensibility of the Holocaust. The film shows how Arendt, as a Jew and resistance fighter, sought to understand the world – and why her thoughts on the catastrophes of the 20th century speak directly to us in the here and now.