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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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Calorie Rating: 176
Released: 2015-06-30
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Homepage: https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/vitaactivathespiritofhannaharendt
Studios: AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT,


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.

Director / Directors

Ada Ushpiz
Director


Cast

Alison Darcy
Character: Hannah Arendt (voice)
Richard Bernstein
Character: Self - Arendt's Friend
Jerome Kohn
Character: Self - Arendt's Assistant

Steven Asheim
Character: Self - Professor
Aharon Appelfeld
Character: Self - Writer
Leon Botstein
Character: Self - Arendt's Student

Idith Zertal
Character: Self - Historian
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Character: Self - Iranian Dissident
Gertrude Heidegger
Character: Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

Emmanuel Faye
Character: Self - Philosopher
Deborah Lipstadt
Character: Self - Historian
Judith Butler
Character: Self - Philosopher

Khaled Furani
Character: Self - Anthropologist
Yehuda Bauer
Character: Self - Historian
Adi Ophir
Character: Self - Philosopher

Roger Errera
Character: Self - Journalist
Edna Brocke
Character: Self - Arendt's Niece
Adolf Eichmann
Character: Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Gideon Hausnet
Character: Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
Hannah Arendt
Character: Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hans Jonas
Character: Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Otto Ohlendorf
Character: Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)

Martin Heidegger
Character: Self - Philosopher (archive footage)


Production and Crew

John Wilson
Original Music Composer
Ada Ushpiz
Producer

Ina Fichman
Producer
Itai Neeman
Director of Photography
German Gutierrez
Director of Photography

Michel Lambert
Sound Designer
Christine Rocheleau
Associate Producer
Hedva Goldschmidt
Executive Producer

Stefan Pannen
Executive Producer
Holger Preuße
Creative Producer
Holly Dressel
Researcher

Ama Lorenz
Researcher
Rina Rosh
Researcher
Yuval Shapira
Researcher

Sabine Rollberg
Commissioning Editor
Danor Glazer
Director of Photography

Zachary Halberd
Director of Photography
Cheung Man Kit
Director of Photography
Martin Krüger
Director of Photography

Aleksey Solodunov
Director of Photography
Wong Sung
Director of Photography


Philippe Lavalette
Director of Photography