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Films

Hannah Arendt

Yasemin Sari on a new film about a courageous thinker and her views on responsibility and the nature of evil.

This movie opens with two scenes. In the first, we see a man walking on a dark road suddenly being kidnapped. This is Adolf Eichmann, ex-SS officer, Nazi bureaucrat and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, being captured in Buenos Aires by Mossad agents in 1961. The next scene shows a woman (played by Barbara Sukowa) staring at the ceiling and smoking a cigarette. This is Arendt, thinking.

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