Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Jun 30, 2015

2h 8m

★ 7.4

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.

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

AU Films

Intuitive Pictures

WDR

ARTE

ICI RDI

SVT

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt Trailers

Cast

Hannah Arendt (voice)

Alison Darcy

Self - Arendt's Friend

Richard Bernstein

Self - Arendt's Assistant

Jerome Kohn

Self - Professor

Steven Asheim

Self - Writer

Aharon Appelfeld

Self - Arendt's Student

Leon Botstein

Self - Historian

Idith Zertal

Self - Iranian Dissident

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

Gertrude Heidegger

Self - Philosopher

Emmanuel Faye

Self - Historian

Deborah Lipstadt

Self - Philosopher

Judith Butler

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