Vita activa [videorecording] : the spirit of Hannah Arendt / produced for HOT ; 8, HSCC - Slutzky Communications presents ; Ina Fichman, Ada Ushpiz present ; a film by Ada Ushpiz ; written and directed by Ada Ushpiz ; produced by Ina Fichman, Ada Ushpiz ; an Intuitive Pictures, AU FIlms production.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Publisher:
Zeitgeist Films,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
With Jerome Kohn, Richard Bernstein, Steven Asheim, Aharon Appelfeld, Leon Bostein, Idath Zertal, Judith Butler, Adi Ophir ; includes archival footage featuring Hannah Arendt ; narration, Alison Darcy. Wide screen (1.85:1). Originally released in 2015. Includes U.S. theatrical trailer and trailer for the film Hannah Arendt / directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
Summary:
"The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt caused an uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of the "Banality of Evil" when referring to the trial of Adolph Eichmann, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine. Her private life was no less controversial thanks to her early love affair with the renowned German philosopher and Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger. This thought provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of the whole of Arendt's life, traveling to places where she lived, worked, loved, and was betrayed, as she wrote about the open wounds of modern times."--Zeitgeist Films website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.