Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
128 mins
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.
Alison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice)
Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Friend
Jerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's Assistant
Steven Asheim
Self - Professor
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
Khaled Furani
Self - Anthropologist
Yehuda Bauer
Self - Historian
Adi Ophir
Self - Philosopher
Edna Brocke
Self - Arendt's Niece
Gideon Hausnet
Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
Hans Jonas
Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)
Otto Ohlendorf
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Martin Heidegger
Self - Philosopher (archive footage)
John Wilson
Original Music Composer
Ada Ushpiz
Writer
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
Holger Preuße
Producer
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
Michaela Stasch
Editor
Geo Schaller
Music
Stefan Pannen
Producer
Ada Ushpiz
Director
Hadas Ayalon
Editor
