Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt poster

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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

2015 • HD • 128min

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Story

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.

Country Canada Language English

Genre Documentary History

Keywords #woman director #biography #holocaust shoah #jew persecution #european history #nuremberg trials #female writer #philosopher #holocaust shoah survivor #adolf eichmanns trial

Production ARTE ICI RDI Intuitive Pictures SVT WDR

Credits

Aharon Appelfeld photo

Aharon Appelfeld

Self - Writer

Judith Butler photo

Judith Butler

Self - Philosopher

Roger Errera photo

Roger Errera

Self - Journalist

Adolf Eichmann photo

Adolf Eichmann

Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Hannah Arendt photo

Hannah Arendt

Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler photo

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hermann Göring photo

Hermann Göring

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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