Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

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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.

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  • Release Date: 2015-06-30
  • Runtime: 2h 8min
  • Director: Ada Ushpiz

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    Cast

    • 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)

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