Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
30 June 2015| 128 min
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
DocumentaryHistory
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
