Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Menahem GolanDirector
- Menahem GolanWriter
- Stanley MannWriter
- Dov SeltzerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ellen BurstynKatalin
- Maruschka DetmersHanna
- Anthony AndrewsMcCormack
- Donald PleasenceCaptain Thomas Rosza
- David WarnerCaptain Julian Simon
- Vincent RiottaYoel (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
- Christopher FairbankRuven
- Robert JacksPeretz
- Serge El-BazTony
- Eli GorensteinAba
- Joe El DrorYonah
- Yehuda EfroniSandor
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Themes
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