
14 Jul 2024

A Real Hero
A Real Hero is an experimental documentary about the life and humanitarian work of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
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.
Hannah Arendt (voice)
Self - Arendt's Friend
Self - Arendt's Assistant
Self - Professor
Self - Writer
Self - Arendt's Student
Self - Historian
Self - Iranian Dissident
Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
Self - Philosopher
Self - Philosopher
Self - Anthropologist
Self - Historian
Self - Philosopher
Self - Journalist
Self - Arendt's Niece
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
14 Jul 2024
A Real Hero is an experimental documentary about the life and humanitarian work of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
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