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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

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Overview

The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.

Genres

Documentary, History

Additional info

CastReview
  • Alison Darcy

    Hannah Arendt (voice)

  • Richard Bernstein

    Self - Arendt's Friend

  • Jerome Kohn

    Self - Arendt's Assistant

  • Steven Asheim

    Self - Professor

  • Aharon Appelfeld

    Self - Writer

  • Leon Botstein

    Self - Arendt's Student

  • Idith Zertal

    Self - Historian

  • Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Self - Iranian Dissident

  • Gertrude Heidegger

    Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

  • Emmanuel Faye

    Self - Philosopher

  • Deborah Lipstadt

    Self - Historian

  • Judith Butler

    Self - Philosopher

  • Khaled Furani

    Self - Anthropologist

  • Yehuda Bauer

    Self - Historian

  • Adi Ophir

    Self - Philosopher

  • Roger Errera

    Self - Journalist

  • Edna Brocke

    Self - Arendt's Niece

  • Adolf Eichmann

    Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

  • Gideon Hausnet

    Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

  • Hannah Arendt

    Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

  • Adolf Hitler

    Self - Politician (archive footage)

  • Hans Jonas

    Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)

  • Hermann Göring

    Self - Politician (archive footage)

  • Otto Ohlendorf

    Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

  • Martin Heidegger

    Self - Philosopher (archive footage)