Released:
1988-04-14

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.

Director:
Menahem Golan

Runtime:
2h 28min

Genre:
Drama, War

• 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