Hanna's War

Sep 21 1988 PG-13 2h 28m
Biography, Drama, War

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.

Plot

At the beginning of World War Two a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine volunteers to parachute behind enemy lines in German-occupied Yugoslavia to save fellow Jews from deportation to Nazi Death Camps. After she enlisted in the British Army she trained in Egypt as a paratrooper for the British Special Operations Executive. In the Spring of 1944 Hannah and a few colleagues were parachuted into Yugoslavia and joined a partisan group. Despite warnings against venturing into German-occupied Hungary Hannah insisted that she continue her mission. Arrested at the Hungarian border Hannah and her companions are sent to a special prison where she is interrogated under torture. However, Hannah refuses to reveal little more than her name.

Written by

Menahem Golan, Stanley Mann

Directed by

Menahem Golan

Cast

Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Anthony Andrews

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Languages

Magyar, English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
Official Trailer - HANNA‘S WAR (1988, Maruschka Detmers)
Teasers
Hanna's War (USA 1988) Rare Teaser Trailer - Cannon Films (Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Bancroft)
Scores
# of Votes
500
Average Rating
6.1 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA