Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (30/06/2015)
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.
Production
AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT
Pays de production
Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden
Genres
Documentary, History
Aharon Appelfeld
Judith Butler
Roger Errera
Adolf Eichmann
Hannah Arendt
Adolf Hitler
