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Hanna's War

  • April 1988
  • 2hrs

    28mins

  • Drama
  • War
  • Directed by

    Menahem Golan,

    Starring

    Ellen Burstyn,

    Maruschka Detmers,

    Anthony Andrews,

    Donald Pleasence

    ...

    Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.