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.
- genus: 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
- cast: Alison Darcy, Richard Bernstein, Jerome Kohn, Steven Asheim, Aharon Appelfeld, Leon Botstein
