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Hanna's War (1988)

Hanna's War (1988)

Drama War
Release Date: 1988, April 14
Directors: Menahem Golan
Countries: United States of America
Production: Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group, The Cannon Group
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Vincent Riotta, David Warner, Christopher Fairbank, Rade Šerbedžija, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews, Ingrid Pitt, John Stride, Yehuda Efroni, Nigel Hastings, Dorota Stalińska

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

rescue