Vita Activa The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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Vita Activa The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
StarringAlison DarcyRichard BernsteinJerome Kohn
DirectorAda Ushpiz
WriterAda Ushpiz
NR 2 hr 8 minHistory, Documentary
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The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt 190675 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 190662 held in Israel in 1961 which she covered for the New Yorker magazine

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Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Stefan Pannen, Hedva Goldschmidt
Production Companies:AU Films Intuitive Pictures WDR ARTE ICI RDI SVT
Vita Activa The Spirit of Hannah Arendt on the Web:Official Website
woman directorbiographyholocaust (shoah)holocaust (shoah) survivorjew persecutionfemale writerphilosophernazi war criminaleuropean historynuremberg trials