Hanna's War

IMDb 4.7 1988 • 148 min • DramaWar

Director

Menahem Golan

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

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