Poster for Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015) 7.4

Documentary, History • 2h 8min • Jun 30th 2015

Story

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.

Trailers

Cast

Alison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice)

Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Friend

Jerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's Assistant

Steven Asheim
Self - Professor

Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld
Self - Writer

Leon Botstein
Self - Arendt's Student

Idith Zertal
Self - Historian

Ramin Jahanbegloo
Self - Iranian Dissident

Gertrude Heidegger
Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

Emmanuel Faye
Self - Philosopher

Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian

Judith Butler

Judith Butler
Self - Philosopher

Khaled Furani
Self - Anthropologist

Yehuda Bauer
Self - Historian

Adi Ophir
Self - Philosopher

Roger Errera

Roger Errera
Self - Journalist

Edna Brocke
Self - Arendt's Niece

Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Gideon Hausnet
Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt
Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hans Jonas
Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

Hermann Göring
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Otto Ohlendorf
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Martin Heidegger
Self - Philosopher (archive footage)

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