Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

Released: 2015-06-30 Duration: 2hr 8min
Rating 7.4

Overview

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.

Production Companies

AU Films
Intuitive Pictures
Intuitive Pictures
WDR
WDR
ARTE
ARTE
ICI RDI
ICI RDI
SVT
SVT

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 6.612

Directed By

Ada Ushpiz

Crew

Original Music Composer
John Wilson
Writer
Ada Ushpiz
Producer
Ada Ushpiz
Producer
Ina Fichman
Director of Photography
Itai Neeman
Director of Photography
German Gutierrez
Sound Designer
Michel Lambert
Associate Producer
Christine Rocheleau
Executive Producer
Hedva Goldschmidt
Executive Producer
Stefan Pannen
Creative Producer
Holger Preuße
Researcher
Holly Dressel
Researcher
Ama Lorenz
Researcher
Rina Rosh
Researcher
Yuval Shapira
Commissioning Editor
Sabine Rollberg
Producer
Holger Preuße
Director of Photography
Danor Glazer
Director of Photography
Zachary Halberd
Director of Photography
Cheung Man Kit
Director of Photography
Martin Krüger
Director of Photography
Aleksey Solodunov
Director of Photography
Wong Sung
Producer
Stefan Pannen
Director
Ada Ushpiz
Editor
Hadas Ayalon
Director of Photography
Philippe Lavalette

TOP CAST

Alison Darcy
Alison Darcy

Hannah Arendt (voice)

Richard Bernstein
Richard Bernstein

Self - Arendt's Friend

Jerome Kohn
Jerome Kohn

Self - Arendt's Assistant

Steven Asheim
Steven Asheim

Self - Professor

Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld

Self - Writer

Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein

Self - Arendt's Student

Idith Zertal
Idith Zertal

Self - Historian

Ramin Jahanbegloo
Ramin Jahanbegloo

Self - Iranian Dissident

Gertrude Heidegger
Gertrude Heidegger

Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

Emmanuel Faye
Emmanuel Faye

Self - Philosopher

Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Lipstadt

Self - Historian

Judith Butler
Judith Butler

Self - Philosopher

Khaled Furani
Khaled Furani

Self - Anthropologist

Yehuda Bauer
Yehuda Bauer

Self - Historian

Adi Ophir
Adi Ophir

Self - Philosopher

Roger Errera
Roger Errera

Self - Journalist

Edna Brocke
Edna Brocke

Self - Arendt's Niece

Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann

Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Gideon Hausnet
Gideon Hausnet

Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt

Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hans Jonas
Hans Jonas

Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)

Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Otto Ohlendorf
Otto Ohlendorf

Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger

Self - Philosopher (archive footage)

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