Hanna's War

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Release date: April 14, 1988
Duration: 148 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Ellen Burstyn
Katalin
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Anthony Andrews
McCormack
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Donald Pleasence
Captain Thomas Rosza
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David Warner
Captain Julian Simon