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.

Documentary History

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)

Deborah Lipstadt

(Self - Historian)

Judith Butler

(Self - Philosopher)

Khaled Furani

(Self - Anthropologist)

Yehuda Bauer

(Self - Historian)

Adi Ophir

(Self - Philosopher)

Roger Errera

(Self - Journalist)

Edna Brocke

(Self - Arendt's Niece)

Adolf Eichmann

(Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage))

Gideon Hausnet

(Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage))

Hannah Arendt

(Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage))

Adolf Hitler

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Hans Jonas

(Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage))

Hermann Göring

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Otto Ohlendorf

(Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage))

Martin Heidegger

(Self - Philosopher (archive footage))