Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

• Documentary
• History

• 128 Mins
• 2015
• en

• star7.4/ 10

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.