Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Ada Ushpiz2015-06-30
7.4
128 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Alison Darcy | Hannah Arendt (voice) | Unowned |
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Richard Bernstein | Self - Arendt's Friend | Unowned |
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Jerome Kohn | Self - Arendt's Assistant | Unowned |
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Steven Asheim | Self - Professor | Unowned |
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Aharon Appelfeld | Self - Writer | Unowned |
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Leon Botstein | Self - Arendt's Student | Unowned |
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Idith Zertal | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Ramin Jahanbegloo | Self - Iranian Dissident | Unowned |
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Gertrude Heidegger | Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter | Unowned |
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Emmanuel Faye | Self - Philosopher | Unowned |
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Deborah Lipstadt | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Judith Butler | Self - Philosopher | Unowned |
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Khaled Furani | Self - Anthropologist | Unowned |
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Yehuda Bauer | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Adi Ophir | Self - Philosopher | Unowned |
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Roger Errera | Self - Journalist | Unowned |
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Edna Brocke | Self - Arendt's Niece | Unowned |
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Adolf Eichmann | Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Gideon Hausnet | Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Hannah Arendt | Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Adolf Hitler | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Hans Jonas | Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Hermann Göring | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Otto Ohlendorf | Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Martin Heidegger | Self - Philosopher (archive footage) | Unowned |