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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt 2015

128 min TMDB 7.3 Documentary History

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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Cast

  • Alison Darcy as Hannah Arendt (voice)
  • Richard Bernstein as Self - Arendt's Friend
  • Jerome Kohn as Self - Arendt's Assistant
  • Steven Asheim as Self - Professor
  • Aharon Appelfeld as Self - Writer
  • Leon Botstein as Self - Arendt's Student

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