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5.3Hanna'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.
Cast
- Ellen Burstyn as Katalin
- Maruschka Detmers as Hanna
- Anthony Andrews as McCormack
- Donald Pleasence as Captain Thomas Rosza
- David Warner as Captain Julian Simon
- Vincent Riotta as Yoel (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
Themes
- rescue
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- The Holocaust
- Director
- Menahem Golan
- Screenwriter
- Stanley Mann
- Cast member
- Donald Pleasence
- Composer
- Dov Seltzer
- Narrative location
- Hungary
- Duration
- 148
- FilmAffinity ID
- 345359
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- publication date
- 1988-01-01
- distributed by
- The Cannon Group
- title
- Hanna's War
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