Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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7.4

NR

Genre: Documentary History
Release year: 2015
Running time: 128 min
Country: Canada

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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Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Adolf Eichmann
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian
Alison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice)
Gertrude Heidegger
Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Friend
Gideon Hausnet
Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

Holger Preuße
Creative Producer
Ada Ushpiz
Writer
Rina Rosh
Researcher
Martin Krüger
Director of Photography
Philippe Lavalette
Director of Photography
Yuval Shapira
Researcher
Wong Sung
Director of Photography
Christine Rocheleau
Associate Producer

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