Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
(2015)

Released: 2015-06-30

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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.

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Alison Darcy

as Hannah Arendt (voice)

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Richard Bernstein

as Self - Arendt's Friend

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Jerome Kohn

as Self - Arendt's Assistant

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Steven Asheim

as Self - Professor

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Aharon Appelfeld

as Self - Writer

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Leon Botstein

as Self - Arendt's Student

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Idith Zertal

as Self - Historian

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Ramin Jahanbegloo

as Self - Iranian Dissident

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Gertrude Heidegger

as Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

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Emmanuel Faye

as Self - Philosopher

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Deborah Lipstadt

as Self - Historian

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Judith Butler

as Self - Philosopher

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Khaled Furani

as Self - Anthropologist

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Yehuda Bauer

as Self - Historian

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Adi Ophir

as Self - Philosopher

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Roger Errera

as Self - Journalist

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Edna Brocke

as Self - Arendt's Niece

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Adolf Eichmann

as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

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Gideon Hausnet

as Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

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Hannah Arendt

as Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

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John Wilson

Original Music Composer

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Hedva Goldschmidt

Executive Producer

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German Gutierrez

Director of Photography

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Stefan Pannen

Executive Producer

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Christine Rocheleau

Associate Producer

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Itai Neeman

Director of Photography

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Holger Preuße

Creative Producer

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Sabine Rollberg

Commissioning Editor

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Rina Rosh

Researcher

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Ama Lorenz

Researcher

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Zachary Halberd

Director of Photography

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Cheung Man Kit

Director of Photography

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Danor Glazer

Director of Photography

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