Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
June 30, 2015
Documentary, History
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Ada Ushpiz
- Self - Writer Aharon Appelfeld
- Self - Philosopher Judith Butler
- Self - Journalist Roger Errera
- Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage) Adolf Eichmann
- Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage) Hannah Arendt
- Self - Politician (archive footage) Adolf Hitler
- Self - Politician (archive footage) Hermann Göring
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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