
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
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.
Top Cast

Alison 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

Emmanuel Faye
Self - Philosopher

Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian

Judith Butler
Self - Philosopher
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