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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Hannah Arendt (voice)
Self - Arendt's Friend
Self - Historian
Self - Philosopher
Self - Anthropologist
Self - Historian
Self - Philosopher
Self - Journalist
Self - Arendt's Niece
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)
Self - Arendt's Assistant
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Self - Philosopher (archive footage)
Self - Professor
Self - Writer
Self - Arendt's Student
Self - Historian
Self - Iranian Dissident
Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
Self - Philosopher

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