"Margarethe von Trotta on Hannah Arendt: “Turning thoughts into images”
Margarethe
von Trotta speaks with us in an interview about her new period film
“Hannah Arendt”. The project takes Trotta on-location in three different
countries and sees her teaming up for the sixth time with actress
Barbara Sukowa.
After films like
Rosenstraße (2003),
I am the Other Woman (2006) and
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009), TV movies on Hessischer Rundfunk, including an episode of
Tatort (2007) in Frankfurt, and a chamber play,
Die Schwester
(2010), director Margarethe von Trotta is now completing a film
recounting four years in the life of German-Jewish philosopher Hannah
Arendt (1906-1975). The screenplay for the film was written by the
director herself and American co-author, Pam Katz, who she also teamed
up with for
Rosenstraße in 2003.
Barbara Sukowa plays the lead, making it the sixth time she has
worked with the renowned director. She’ll share the limelight with Axel
Milberg, Ulrich Noethen, Michael Degen, Julia Jentsch, Victoria von
Trauttmansdorff, Janet McTeer and others in front of French camerawoman
Caroline Champetier’s lens. The drama is set in the 1960s and was filmed
between October 16 and December 17, 2011, in just 37 filming days in
North Rhine-Westphalia, Jerusalem and Luxembourg. The planned release is
October 2012.
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