Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

Director: Ada Ushpiz

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.

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