Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
2015 · 2h 8m · N/A
Documentary, History
Directed by
Ada Ushpiz
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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
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.
Director and cast
- Ada Ushpiz Director
- Alison Darcy as Hannah Arendt (voice)
- Richard Bernstein as Self - Arendt's Friend
- Jerome Kohn as Self - Arendt's Assistant
- Steven Asheim as Self - Professor
- Aharon Appelfeld as Self - Writer
- Leon Botstein as Self - Arendt's Student
- Idith Zertal as Self - Historian
- Ramin Jahanbegloo as Self - Iranian Dissident
- Gertrude Heidegger as Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
- Emmanuel Faye as Self - Philosopher
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