Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
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.
- Released
- 2015-06-30
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Ada Ushpiz
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 from 16 votes
Cast
- Alison Darcy as Hannah Arendt (voice)
- Richard Bernstein as Self - Arendt's Friend
- Jerome Kohn as Self - Arendt's Assistant
- Steven Asheim as Self - Professor
- Aharon Appelfeld as Self - Writer
- Leon Botstein as Self - Arendt's Student
- Idith Zertal as Self - Historian
- Ramin Jahanbegloo as Self - Iranian Dissident
- Gertrude Heidegger as Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
- Emmanuel Faye as Self - Philosopher
- Deborah Lipstadt as Self - Historian
- Judith Butler as Self - Philosopher