A captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous with her Nazi propaganda film TRIUMPH OF THE WILL but kept denying any closer ties to the regime.
During the year 1961 the influential German-Jewish philosopher HANNAH ARENDT reported for the New Yorker magazine on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Her articles introducing her now-famous concept of the Banality of Evil triggered off an unprecedented controversy. Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries Margarethe von Trotta turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive dramatic cinema.
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