Hanna's War poster

Hanna's War

1988 • 2h28m Drama, War

Rating

4.7/10

Popularity

1

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.

Details

Director

Menahem Golan

Screenplay

Menahem Golan

Stanley Mann

Cast

Ellen Burstyn

Maruschka Detmers

Anthony Andrews

Release date

4/14/1988

Status

Released

Origin country

US

Vote count

3