Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

June. 30,2015

Rating：

7.3

Genre：

History Documentary

Keywords：

Woman Director Biography Holocaust (shoah)

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Aharon Appelfeld as Self - Writer

Judith Butler as Self - Philosopher

Roger Errera as Self - Journalist

Adolf Eichmann as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Hannah Arendt as Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

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