Courage is indispensible / russian dance revisited

Hannah Arendt at the University of Chicago, undated.

Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust.

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"Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake."
between past and future; arendt

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documentary / the filmmakler's view / how it comes through the unseen, the invisible

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"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together."
-hannah arendt

TITLE: The Specialist (Un Spécialiste) Portrait of a Modern Criminal

YEAR: 1999
DIR/PROD: Eyal Sivan
COUNTRY: France/Israel
LANGUAGE: Hebrew and German with English ST
TIME: 128 minutes

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Tom Waits' "Russian Dance" is played over the closing credits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypH_fNDdKio

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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

hannah arendt

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"Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act."
from the HUMAN CONDITION