{"id":42757,"date":"2025-09-23T13:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/looks.film\/?p=42757"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:28:28","slug":"hannah-arendt-facing-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.looks.film\/en\/hannah-arendt-facing-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"HANNAH ARENDT: FACING TYRANNY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HANNAH ARENDT: FACING TYRANNY<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1592215524041{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1588327151504{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 70px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]HANNAH ARENDT: FACING TYRANNY explores the extraordinary life and works of one of the most influential and fearless political thinkers of the twentieth century. Hannah Arendt\u2019s experience as a political prisoner, activist, refugee and survivor informed her breathtaking insights into the rise of totalitarianism, the banality of evil, and the crisis of democracy.<\/p>\n

December 2025 marks the 50the anniversary of Hannah Arendt\u2019s death, but her work has never been more relevant than today. Against the background of the global rise of authoritarian rule, her precise and witty writings have developed a haunting urgency, and her adventurous biography serves as a model for a dignified and compassionate life in face of fascism.<\/p>\n

Supported by the award-winning PBS series \u201cAmerican Masters\u201d HANNAH ARENDT: FACING TYRANNY tells Arendt\u2019s life story as she bears witness to the ravages of antisemitism, the excruciating effects of two World Wars, the rise of totalitarian terror, and ultimately as she identifies the fault lines in the democracy of her beloved adopted homeland, the USA.<\/p>\n

The story is brought to life through a rich and immersive visual palette of archival film and photographs, designed to bring the viewer inside the drama. Renowned actress Nina Hoss gives voice to Arend\u2019s own words from her books, lectures and essays, but also from her intimate correspondence with friends, lovers and adversaries.<\/p>\n

Lesser-known experiences \u2013 her dramatic escapes from fascism, her work resettling Jewish refugees during WWII, and her return to Europe to locate and rescue literature, art and Judaica looted by the Nazis \u2013 brings a deeper resonance to Arendt\u2019s belief that thinking is derived from experience.<\/p>\n

She would go on to write and lecture about the U.S. government\u2019s deception about the Vietnam War, student protests, the Watergate scandal, and the civil rights movement. And as she died in 1975, it is left to our imagination what she would think about the state of the world we live in today.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1590585294391{padding-right: 70px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]Distribution<\/strong>
\nBettina Offermann
\ndistribution@looks.film<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css=””]Executive Producers
\n<\/strong>Jeff Bieber
\nRegina Bouchehri
\nGunnar Dedio
\nBirgit Rasch
\nMichael Kantor<\/p>\n

A production by<\/strong>
\nLOOKSfilm & Jeff Bieber Productions<\/p>\n

In co-production with
\n<\/strong>S\u00fcdwestrundfunk (SWR) & Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)<\/p>\n

Funding<\/strong>
\nNational Endowment for the Humanities, Mitteldeutsche Medienf\u00f6rderung, Conference on Jewish Claims against Germany, Creative Europe<\/p>\n

Director<\/strong>
\nJeff Bieber & Chana Ghazit<\/p>\n

Script<\/strong>
\nJeff Bieber & Maia Harris<\/p>\n

Creative Producer<\/strong>
\nNiklas Hoffmann-Walbeck<\/p>\n

Commissioning Editors
\n<\/strong>Antje Stamer (SWR)
\nSimone Reuter (rbb)<\/p>\n

Line Producer<\/strong>
\nNathalie Dietrich<\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>
\nFlorian Tessloff<\/p>\n

Speaker<\/strong>
\nNina Hoss (als Hannah Arendt)<\/p>\n

Experts<\/strong>
\nBarbara Hahn
\nThomas Meyer
\nLyndsey Stonebridge
\nSamantha Rose Hill
\nElizabeth Minnich
\nRoger Berkowitz
\nJerome Kohn
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