Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

06/30/2015

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2hrs 8min

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Documentary

,History

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Alison Darcy
  • Richard Bernstein
  • Jerome Kohn
  • Steven Asheim
  • Aharon Appelfeld

    Directors

  • Ada Ushpiz
  • Holger Preuße
  • Aleksey Solodunov

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • AU Films
  • Intuitive Pictures
  • WDR
  • ARTE
  • ICI RDI
  • SVT

    Production Countries

  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Israel
  • Sweden

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew

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