Hannah Arendt

In 1960, Israel announced that it had captured Adolf Eichmann, a former senior official of Nazi Germany and known as the "executor", and tried him in Jerusalem in 1961. Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa), a famous Jewish female philosopher who has lived in the United States for many years, was invited by The New Yorker to write about the trial. When Hannah Arendt went to Jerusalem to watch the trial, she found differences between Eichmann's exposition, public opinion, and her own philosophical reflections. When Arendt elevated Eichmann's behavior to a philosophical level, her article unsurprisingly aroused negative comments and criticism from society. Some of Hannah Arendt's old friends even broke up with her. The most proud female student under Heidegger at that time wanted to escape from the storm, but found that everything was not as simple as she expected.