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Film / 2015
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Directed by
Ada Ushpiz
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.
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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
Alison DarcyHannah Arendt (voice)
Richard BernsteinSelf - Arendt's Friend
Jerome KohnSelf - Arendt's Assistant
Steven AsheimSelf - Professor
Aharon AppelfeldSelf - Writer
Leon BotsteinSelf - Arendt's Student
Idith ZertalSelf - Historian
Ramin JahanbeglooSelf - Iranian Dissident
Gertrude HeideggerSelf - Heidegger's Granddaughter
Emmanuel FayeSelf - Philosopher
Deborah LipstadtSelf - Historian
Judith ButlerSelf - Philosopher
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Khaled FuraniSelf - Anthropologist
Yehuda BauerSelf - Historian
Adi OphirSelf - Philosopher
Roger ErreraSelf - Journalist
Edna BrockeSelf - Arendt's Niece
Adolf EichmannSelf - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Gideon HausnetSelf - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
Hannah ArendtSelf - Political Philosopher (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Hans JonasSelf - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)
Hermann GöringSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Otto OhlendorfSelf - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Martin HeideggerSelf - Philosopher (archive footage)
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