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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

7.4/10 2h 8m Jun 30, 2015
Documentary History

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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Original Title Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Original Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.4

Cast

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Alison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice)
Popularity: 1.8
No Photo" alt="Richard Bernstein" class="cast-photo">
Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Friend
Popularity: 0.3
No Photo" alt="Jerome Kohn" class="cast-photo">
Jerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's Assistant
Popularity: 0.3
No Photo" alt="Steven Asheim" class="cast-photo">
Steven Asheim
Self - Professor
Popularity: 0.0
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld
Self - Writer
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Leon Botstein" class="cast-photo">
Leon Botstein
Self - Arendt's Student
Popularity: 0.6
No Photo" alt="Idith Zertal" class="cast-photo">
Idith Zertal
Self - Historian
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Ramin Jahanbegloo" class="cast-photo">
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Self - Iranian Dissident
Popularity: 0.4
No Photo" alt="Gertrude Heidegger" class="cast-photo">
Gertrude Heidegger
Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
Popularity: 0.2
No Photo" alt="Emmanuel Faye" class="cast-photo">
Emmanuel Faye
Self - Philosopher
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Deborah Lipstadt" class="cast-photo">
Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian
Popularity: 0.1
Judith Butler
Judith Butler
Self - Philosopher
Popularity: 1.4

Key Crew

Writer Ada Ushpiz
Producer Ada Ushpiz, Ina Fichman, Holger Preuße
Executive Producer Hedva Goldschmidt, Stefan Pannen
Editor Michaela Stasch, Hadas Ayalon
Music Geo Schaller
Director Ada Ushpiz

Production

AU Films
IL
Intuitive Pictures
CA
WDR
DE
ARTE
DE
ICI RDI
CA
SVT
SE

Videos & Trailers

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Official US Trailer
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Keywords

holocaust (shoah) jew persecution nuremberg trials biography holocaust (shoah) survivor woman director adolf eichmann's trial philosopher european history female writer nazi war criminal

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Release Date June 30, 2015
Runtime 2h 8m
Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.4
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