Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
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Documentary, History
•- Runtime
- 128 mins
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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.
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