Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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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  Ada Ushpiz

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  Alison Darcy
  Hannah Arendt (voice)
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  Richard Bernstein
  Self - Arendt's Friend
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  Jerome Kohn
  Self - Arendt's Assistant
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  Steven Asheim
  Self - Professor
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  Aharon Appelfeld
  Self - Writer
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  Leon Botstein
  Self - Arendt's Student
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  Idith Zertal
  Self - Historian
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  Ramin Jahanbegloo
  Self - Iranian Dissident
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  Gertrude Heidegger
  Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
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  Emmanuel Faye
  Self - Philosopher
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  Deborah Lipstadt
  Self - Historian
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  Judith Butler
  Self - Philosopher
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  Khaled Furani
  Self - Anthropologist
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  Yehuda Bauer
  Self - Historian
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  Adi Ophir
  Self - Philosopher
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  Roger Errera
  Self - Journalist
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  Edna Brocke
  Self - Arendt's Niece
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  Adolf Eichmann
  Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
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  Gideon Hausnet
  Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
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  Hannah Arendt
  Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)