Vita Activa, the Spirit of Hannah Arendt at IDFA Amsterdam
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Vita Activa, the Spirit of Hannah Arendt at IDFA Amsterdam
Vita Activa is a personal spiritual biography of the Jewish philosopher, Hannah Arendt, who coined the controversial phrase “The Banality of Evil,” in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The movie tracks the connections between her life story and her thinking, through rare archival footage demonstrating the Banality of Evil. Her Ideas on the nature of Evil, pluralism, Freedom, etc., are relevant today more than ever.
125 min.
See additional information and screening times on the festival’s website.