Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
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.
Details
Directors
Ada Ushpiz
Writers
Ada Ushpiz, Holger Preuße
Cast
Alison Darcy, Richard Bernstein, Jerome Kohn, Steven Asheim, Aharon Appelfeld, Leon Botstein, Idith Zertal, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Gertrude Heidegger, Emmanuel Faye, Deborah Lipstadt, Judith Butler, Khaled Furani, Yehuda Bauer, Adi Ophir
Production
AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT
Languages
English, French, German, Hebrew
Countries
Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden
