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★ 耶路撒冷影展 正式入選

1960年，以色列情報局綁架了前納粹高官艾希曼，在耶路撒冷進行公開審判。當時已是知名學者的漢娜鄂蘭，因德裔猶太人的身份備感歷史重任，便主動向《紐約客》自薦，希望代表雜誌見證報導，最終誕生出顛覆性概念「平庸的邪惡」，在全球引起軒然大波。本片以耶路撒冷世紀大審為引子，交織漢娜的學術之路與情感脈絡，逐一勾勒出時代傷痕全景圖，深刻探討漢娜學說最歷久彌新的精采見地：非極權政體中常見極權要素、任何一種意識形態之危險、多元主義之必要，以及當今世上邪惡的平庸性。
劇組飛越大半地球，採訪最熟悉漢娜的助理、學者、作家與親友，佐以獨家訪談與珍貴史料，更挖掘出她和著名德國哲學家馬丁海德格之間的往返私信，一步步還原漢娜掀起的思維狂潮。

The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt caused an uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of the "Banality of Evil" when referring to the trial of Adolph Eichmann, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine. Her private life was no less controversial thanks to her early love affair with the renowned German philosopher and Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger. This thought provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of the whole of Arendt's life, traveling to places where she lived, worked, loved, and was betrayed, as she wrote about the open wounds of modern times. Through her books, which are still widely read and the recent release of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt (also a Zeitgeist Films release) there is renewed interest in Arendt throughout the world, especially among young people who find her insights into the nature of evil, totalitarianism, ideologies, and the perils faced by refugees, more relevant than ever.