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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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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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as Hannah Arendt (voice)

Richard Bernstein

Richard Bernstein

as Self - Arendt's Friend

as Self - Arendt's Assistant

as Self - Professor

Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld

as Self - Writer

as Self - Arendt's Student

as Self - Historian

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Ramin Jahanbegloo

as Self - Iranian Dissident

Gertrude Heidegger

Gertrude Heidegger

as Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

as Self - Philosopher

Deborah Lipstadt

Deborah Lipstadt

as Self - Historian

as Self - Philosopher

as Self - Anthropologist

as Self - Historian

as Self - Philosopher

as Self - Journalist

as Self - Arendt's Niece

as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

as Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

as Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

as Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

as Self - Philosopher (archive footage)

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Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

German Gutierrez

German Gutierrez

Director of Photography

Christine Rocheleau

Christine Rocheleau

Associate Producer

Hedva Goldschmidt

Hedva Goldschmidt

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Creative Producer

Sabine Rollberg

Sabine Rollberg

Commissioning Editor

Director of Photography

Zachary Halberd

Zachary Halberd

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Aleksey Solodunov

Aleksey Solodunov

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Michaela Stasch

Michaela Stasch

Philippe Lavalette

Philippe Lavalette

Director of Photography

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