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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
(2015)Documentary, History
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2hrs 8m
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.
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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
Emmanuel Faye
** Self - Philosopher
Deborah Lipstadt
** Self - Historian
Judith Butler
** Self - Philosopher
Khaled Furani
** Self - Anthropologist
Yehuda Bauer
** Self - Historian
Adi Ophir
** Self - Philosopher
Roger Errera
** Self - Journalist
Edna Brocke
** Self - Arendt's Niece
Adolf Eichmann
** Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Gideon Hausnet
** Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
Hannah Arendt
** Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
** Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hans Jonas
** Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
** Self - Politician (archive footage)
Otto Ohlendorf
** Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Martin Heidegger
** Self - Philosopher (archive footage)
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