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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Release Date:February 10, 2016

Running Time:128 min

Genres:History, Documentary

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Cast

Alison Darcy Richard Bernstein Jerome Kohn Steven Asheim Aharon Appelfeld Leon Botstein Idith Zertal Ramin Jahanbegloo Gertrude Heidegger Emmanuel Faye Deborah Lipstadt Judith Butler

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Synopsis

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.

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