Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
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 — 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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