Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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.

Cast

A

Alison Darcy

Hannah Arendt (voice)

R

Richard Bernstein

Self - Arendt's Friend

J

Jerome Kohn

Self - Arendt's Assistant

S

Steven Asheim

Self - Professor

Aharon Appelfeld

Self - Writer

L

Leon Botstein

Self - Arendt's Student

I

Idith Zertal

Self - Historian

R

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Self - Iranian Dissident

G

Gertrude Heidegger

Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

E

Emmanuel Faye

Self - Philosopher

Similar Movies

Cool Water

19910

The Most Precious of Cargoes

2024•★ 7.6

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

2006•★ 6.8

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

2017•★ 7.7

Adele and Everything After

20170

Out of State

2017•★ 5.8

You Might Also Like

The Edge of Democracy

2019•★ 7.7

Boy 7

2015•★ 6.0

16 and Missing

2015•★ 5.5

Ama-San

2016•★ 6.8

Joker

2019•★ 8.1

Parasite

2019•★ 8.5