Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Released on
Documentary, History
Runtime
128 mins
(15 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Alison Darcy
  • Richard Bernstein
  • Jerome Kohn
  • Steven Asheim
  • Aharon Appelfeld
  • Leon Botstein
  • Idith Zertal
  • Ramin Jahanbegloo
  • Gertrude Heidegger
  • Emmanuel Faye
  • Deborah Lipstadt
  • Judith Butler
  • Khaled Furani
  • Yehuda Bauer
  • Adi Ophir
  • Roger Errera
  • Edna Brocke
  • Adolf Eichmann
  • Gideon Hausnet
  • Hannah Arendt
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Hans Jonas
  • Hermann Göring
  • Otto Ohlendorf
  • Martin Heidegger

Director

  • Ada Ushpiz

Producers

  • Ada Ushpiz
  • Ina Fichman
  • Holger Preuße
  • Stefan Pannen

Screenwriter

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