Hanna's War

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 14, 1988

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, Hungarian

Countries

United States of America

Production

Cannon Group,Golan-Globus Productions,The Cannon Group

Cast

Ellen Burstyn,Maruschka Detmers,Anthony Andrews,Donald Pleasence,David Warner,Vincent Riotta,Christopher Fairbank,Robert Jacks,Serge El-Baz,Eli Gorensteinand 44 more

Director

Menahem Golan

Writer

Menahem Golan,Stanley Mann

Producer

Yoram Globus,Menahem Golan

Cinematography

Elemér Ragályi

Music

Dov Seltzer

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0095275