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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

(2015)

June 30, 2015 2h 8m
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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.

Ada Ushpiz

Director

Top Billed Cast

AD

Alison Darcy

Hannah Arendt (voice)

RB

Richard Bernstein

Self - Arendt's Friend

JK

Jerome Kohn

Self - Arendt's Assistant

SA

Steven Asheim

Self - Professor

AA

Aharon Appelfeld

Self - Writer

LB

Leon Botstein

Self - Arendt's Student

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Idith Zertal

Self - Historian

RJ

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Self - Iranian Dissident

GH

Gertrude Heidegger

Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

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Emmanuel Faye

Self - Philosopher

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