1066405 movies 572119 celebrities 80009 trailers 18947 reviews
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

128 minutes EN 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.
CinePops rating:
- /10
0 votes
My rating:
Add to list

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

Production crew

Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Sound Designer
Commissioning Editor
Producer
Associate Producer
Executive Producer
Production companies: AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT
Production countries: Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden

Keywords

Click on a keyword to see related movies

Similar movies to Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

If you like Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015), you might also like these movies. Similar movies are obtained using similar genres and topics.
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" (2022)
2022
Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?