Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

Title: Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Original Title: Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Release Date: 2015-06-30
Status: Released
Rating: 7.4/10 (from 15 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Documentary, History
Production Companies: AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT
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 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