Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Movie| Title | Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt |
| User score | 7.4 |
| Release date | Jun 30, 2015 |
| Genre | Documentary, History |
| Director | Ada Ushpiz |
| Production country | Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden |
| Production companies | AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT |
| Run time | 128 min. |
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.
Videos
Official US Trailer
Dec 14, 2015
US Trailer
Feb 7, 2017
Actors
See moreAlison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice)
Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Friend
Jerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's Assistant
Steven Asheim
Self - Professor
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
Self - Philosopher
