Hanna's War

Hanna's War

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 14, 1988

Runtime

2h 28m

Genres

Drama, War

User Score

47%

Original Title

Hanna's War

Production Companies

Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group

Director

Menahem Golan

Description

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.