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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.
Key Crew
Writer: Ada Ushpiz
Director of Photography: German Gutierrez, Itai Neeman, Zachary Halberd, Cheung Man Kit, Danor Glazer, Martin Krüger, Wong Sung, Aleksey Solodunov, Philippe Lavalette
Producer: Ina Fichman, Ada Ushpiz, Stefan Pannen, Holger Preuße
Director: Ada Ushpiz
Top Cast
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
Videos
Official US Trailer
