Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)

overview : 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.

Release Date : Jun 30, 2015

Runtime : 2h 8m

Genre : Documentary  History  

Companies : AU Films, Intuitive Pictures, WDR, ARTE, ICI RDI, SVT

Countries : Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden

Keywords : holocaust (shoah), jew persecution, nuremberg trials, biography, holocaust (shoah) survivor, woman director, adolf eichmann's trial, philosopher, european history, female writer, nazi war criminal