
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
2015 · Movie · 127 min · ★ 7.3
A documentary about the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the prolific and unclassifiable thinker, political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist, and with her encounter with the trial of Eichmann a high ranking Nazi.
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Streaming on Kino Film Collection.
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Details
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-06-30
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 127 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (16 votes)
Themes
- holocaust (shoah)
- jew persecution
- nuremberg trials
- biography
- holocaust (shoah) survivor
- woman director
- adolf eichmann's trial
- philosopher
- european history
- female writer
- nazi war criminal
Cast & crew
- AD
Alison Darcy
as Hannah Arendt (voice)
- RB
Richard Bernstein
as Self - Arendt's Friend
- JK
Jerome Kohn
as Self - Arendt's Assistant
- SA
Steven Asheim
as Self - Professor

Aharon Appelfeld
as Self - Writer
- LB
Leon Botstein
as Self - Arendt's Student
- IZ
Idith Zertal
as Self - Historian
- RJ
Ramin Jahanbegloo
as Self - Iranian Dissident
- GH
Gertrude Heidegger
as Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
- EF
Emmanuel Faye
as Self - Philosopher
Directed by Ada Ushpiz