Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)


  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2015-06-30
  • User Rating: 7.4/10 from 15 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 8min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: AU Films
  • Production Country: Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden
  • Director: Ada Ushpiz
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Summary

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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  • Alison Darcy

    as Hannah Arendt (voice)

  • Richard Bernstein

    as Self - Arendt's Friend

  • Jerome Kohn

    as Self - Arendt's Assistant

  • Steven Asheim

    as Self - Professor

  • Aharon Appelfeld

    as Self - Writer

  • Leon Botstein

    as Self - Arendt's Student

  • Idith Zertal

    as Self - Historian

  • Ramin Jahanbegloo

    as Self - Iranian Dissident

  • Gertrude Heidegger

    as Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

  • Emmanuel Faye

    as Self - Philosopher

  • Deborah Lipstadt

    as Self - Historian

  • Judith Butler

    as Self - Philosopher

  • Khaled Furani

    as Self - Anthropologist

  • Yehuda Bauer

    as Self - Historian

  • Adi Ophir

    as Self - Philosopher

  • Roger Errera

    as Self - Journalist

  • Edna Brocke

    as Self - Arendt's Niece

  • Adolf Eichmann

    as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

  • Gideon Hausnet

    as Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)

  • Hannah Arendt

    as Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)

  • Adolf Hitler

    as Self - Politician (archive footage)

  • Hans Jonas

    as Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)

  • Hermann Göring

    as Self - Politician (archive footage)

  • Otto Ohlendorf

    as Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

  • Martin Heidegger

    as Self - Philosopher (archive footage)
Writing Ada Ushpiz Writer
Sound John Wilson Original Music Composer
Production Christine Rocheleau Associate Producer
Production Hedva Goldschmidt Executive Producer
Production Ada Ushpiz Producer
Production Ina Fichman Producer
Camera Itai Neeman Director of Photography
Camera German Gutierrez Director of Photography
Production Stefan Pannen Executive Producer
Sound Michel Lambert Sound Designer
Production Rina Rosh Researcher
Writing Holger Preuße Creative Producer
Production Ama Lorenz Researcher
Production Holly Dressel Researcher
Crew Sabine Rollberg Commissioning Editor
Production Yuval Shapira Researcher
Camera Martin Krüger Director of Photography
Camera Aleksey Solodunov Director of Photography
Camera Wong Sung Director of Photography
Camera Danor Glazer Director of Photography
Camera Cheung Man Kit Director of Photography
Camera Zachary Halberd Director of Photography
Production Holger Preuße Producer
Sound Geo Schaller Music
Production Stefan Pannen Producer
Editing Michaela Stasch Editor
Directing Ada Ushpiz Director
Editing Hadas Ayalon Editor
Camera Philippe Lavalette Director of Photography

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