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.
- Year : 2015
- Country : Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden
- Genre : Documentary, History
- Studio : AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT
- Keyword : holocaust (shoah), jew persecution, nuremberg trials, biography, holocaust (shoah) survivor, woman director, adolf eichmann's trial, philosopher, european history, female writer, nazi war criminal
- Director : Ada Ushpiz
- Cast : Alison Darcy, Richard Bernstein, Jerome Kohn, Steven Asheim, Aharon Appelfeld, Leon Botstein