Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

06/30/2015 (CA) • 2h 8m

Documentary, History

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.

Top Billed 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


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

holocaust (shoah)

jew persecution

nuremberg trials

biography

holocaust (shoah) survivor

woman director

adolf eichmann's trial

philosopher

european history

female writer

nazi war criminal

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