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.

Directed by Ada Ushpiz

Top cast

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Alison Darcy

Hannah Arendt (voice)

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Richard Bernstein

Self - Arendt's Friend

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Jerome Kohn

Self - Arendt's Assistant

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Steven Asheim

Self - Professor

Aharon Appelfeld

Self - Writer

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Leon Botstein

Self - Arendt's Student

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Idith Zertal

Self - Historian

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Ramin Jahanbegloo

Self - Iranian Dissident

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Gertrude Heidegger

Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

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Emmanuel Faye

Self - Philosopher

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Deborah Lipstadt

Self - Historian

Judith Butler

Self - Philosopher

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Khaled Furani

Self - Anthropologist

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Yehuda Bauer

Self - Historian

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Adi Ophir

Self - Philosopher

Roger Errera

Self - Journalist

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Edna Brocke

Self - Arendt's Niece

Adolf Eichmann

Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

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Gideon Hausnet

Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

Hannah Arendt

Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

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