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.

Director: Ada Ushpiz

Genre: Documentary, History

Cast: Alison Darcy, Richard Bernstein, Jerome Kohn, Steven Asheim, Aharon Appelfeld, Leon Botstein, Idith Zertal, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Gertrude Heidegger, Emmanuel Faye

• Release date: 2015-06-30
• Runtime: 128
• Country: Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden

Watch trailer