The period film “Hannah Arendt” - by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Barbara Sukowa who plays the lead and Janet McTeer as Arendt’s friend and writer Mary McCarthy - is planned to be released in October 2012

"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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