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
Aharon Appelfeld
Self - Writer
Judith Butler
Self - Philosopher
Roger Errera
Self - Journalist
Adolf Eichmann
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Hannah Arendt
Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self - Politician (archive footage)