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.
Genre: Documentary, History
Director: Ada Ushpiz
Actors: Aharon Appelfeld, Alison Darcy, Emmanuel Faye, Gertrude Heidegger, Idith Zertal, Jerome Kohn, Leon Botstein, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Richard Bernstein, Steven Asheim