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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
Directed by Ada Ushpiz
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.
Length 128 minutes
Actors
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