Germany 2012
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Script: Pamela Katz, Margarethe von Trotta
Camera: Caroline Champetier
Editor: Bettina Böhler
Music: André Mergenthaler
Actor: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Julia Jentsch
Production: Bettina Brokemper, Johannes Rexin, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher Ivanceanu
Distribution: NFP
113 Min., DCP, colour, German

The film takes place between 1960 and 1964. The organizer of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, has been abducted to Israel by the Israeli secret police. Hannah Arendt, working for “The New Yorker”, reports on the trial in Jerusalem and coins the famous phrase “banality of evil”. The film won several awards.

Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta is one of the most famous directors in Europe. She started her career in 1975. She received countless awards for her 22 films. She received a star on the Berlin Boulevard of Stars.

Films (selection)
1978    Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages
1981    Die bleierne Zeit
1995    Das Versprechen
2003    Rosenstraße
2009    Vision