Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt 2015

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.

Cast:

Alison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice) 

Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Friend 

Jerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's Assistant 

Steven Asheim
Self - Professor 

Aharon Appelfeld
Self - Writer 

Leon Botstein
Self - Arendt's Student