Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
2015The 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.
Acted in
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)
