Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

ALL 06/30/2015 (en) Documentary, History 128 Min
  • Release
    06/30/2015
  • Production
    AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT
  • Rotten tomato
    74%
  • Original title
    Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Ada Ushpiz

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Alison Darcy

    Hannah Arendt (voice)

  2. Richard Bernstein

    Self - Arendt's Friend

  3. Jerome Kohn

    Self - Arendt's Assistant

  4. Steven Asheim

    Self - Professor

  5. Aharon Appelfeld

    Self - Writer

  6. Leon Botstein

    Self - Arendt's Student

  7. Idith Zertal

    Self - Historian

  8. Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Self - Iranian Dissident

  9. Gertrude Heidegger

    Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

  10. Emmanuel Faye

    Self - Philosopher

  11. Deborah Lipstadt

    Self - Historian

  12. Judith Butler

    Self - Philosopher

  13. Khaled Furani

    Self - Anthropologist

  14. Yehuda Bauer

    Self - Historian

  15. Adi Ophir

    Self - Philosopher

  16. Roger Errera

    Self - Journalist

  17. Edna Brocke

    Self - Arendt's Niece

  18. Adolf Eichmann

    Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

  19. Gideon Hausnet

    Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

  20. Hannah Arendt

    Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

  21. Adolf Hitler

    Self - Politician (archive footage)

  22. Hans Jonas

    Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)

  23. Hermann Göring

    Self - Politician (archive footage)

  24. Otto Ohlendorf

    Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

  25. Martin Heidegger

    Self - Philosopher (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 25 , Crews : 29

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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015) 128 Min

ALL 06/30/2015 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 06/30/2015
  • Production
    AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT
  • Original title Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Ada Ushpiz

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Michaela Stasch, Hadas Ayalon

    Editor

  4. Ada Ushpiz, Ina Fichman, Holger Preuße, Stefan Pannen

    Producer