

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
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2015-06-30 • 2h 8m
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.
- Directors
- Ada Ushpiz
- Writters
- Ada Ushpiz
- Editors
- Ada Ushpiz, Hadas Ayalon

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Visit website2015-06-30 • 2h 8m
7.4/10 • 15
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.
- Directors
- Ada Ushpiz
- Writters
- Ada Ushpiz
- Editors
- Ada Ushpiz, Hadas Ayalon
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsAlison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice)
Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Friend
Jerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's Assistant
Steven Asheim
Self - Professor
Aharon Appelfeld
Self - Writer
Leon Botstein
Self - Arendt's Student
Idith Zertal
Self - Historian
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Self - Iranian Dissident
Gertrude Heidegger
Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
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- holocaust (shoah)jew persecutionnuremberg trialsbiographyholocaust (shoah) survivorwoman directoradolf eichmann's trialphilosophereuropean historyfemale writernazi war criminal