09 Aug 1996
Basquiat
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
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.
Top Billed 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
Idith Zertal Self - Historian
Ramin Jahanbegloo Self - Iranian Dissident
Gertrude Heidegger Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
Emmanuel Faye Self - Philosopher
Judith Butler Self - Philosopher
Khaled Furani Self - Anthropologist
Yehuda Bauer Self - Historian
Adi Ophir Self - Philosopher
Roger Errera Self - Journalist
Edna Brocke Self - Arendt's Niece
Adolf Eichmann Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
Gideon Hausnet Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
Hannah Arendt Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler Self - Politician (archive footage)
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