With the answers to the two questions "What's the banality of evil?" and "Who was Hannah Arendt?" makes this work very much and justifies for me the award of four stars. Someone wrote to me, Arendt's speech at the end of the movie alone is worth a visit to the cinema. I think that describes this film very well. There are a few great moments and ideas that stand out brilliantly and burn into memory.
Nevertheless, I was at times disappointed. And when I think about why that was so, then I'm for myself to only one conclusion: The expectations were - not zuletzten due to the high-sounding title - very high. These expectations can be probably no film justice. The fascination of the moments described above do not wears far through the entire movie. Here, the fifth star has been lost for me. But who has the leisure to get over to see and the rather shallower passages to "think for themselves" uses, which is on this film have his joy.