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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
Directed by Ada Ushpiz
Documentary, History · 2h 08m
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
D
Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian
Judith Butler
Self - Philosopher
Crew
- Director
- Ada Ushpiz
- Writer
- Ada Ushpiz
- Director of Photography
- German Gutierrez, Itai Neeman, Zachary Halberd, Cheung Man Kit, Danor Glaser, Martin Krüger, Wong Sung, Aleksey Solodunov, Philippe Lavalette
- Original Music Composer
- John Wilson
- Editor
- Michaela Stasch, Hadas Ayalon
- Producer
- Ina Fichman, Ada Ushpiz, Stefan Pannen, Holger Preuße
Details
- Release date
- 2015-06-30
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, French, German, Hebrew
- Countries
- Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden
- Production
- AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT