Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

128 mins | Documentary, History | June 30, 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.

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

128 mins | Documentary, History | June 30, 2015

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARTE, SVT, AUfilms, ICI Radio-Canada Télé, Intuitive Pictures
Original title Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Directors Ada Ushpiz
Writers Holger Preuße, Ada Ushpiz

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

Khaled Furani

as Self - Anthropologist

Yehuda Bauer

as Self - Historian

Adi Ophir

as Self - Philosopher

Roger Errera

as Self - Journalist

Edna Brocke

as Self - Arendt's Niece

Adolf Eichmann

as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Gideon Hausnet

as Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

Hannah Arendt

as Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hans Jonas

as Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Otto Ohlendorf

as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Martin Heidegger

as Self - Philosopher (archive footage)