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Hanna's War (1988)

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.

Release: 1988-04-14
Runtime: 148 min
Rating: 4.7 / 10
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
Vincent Riotta
Vincent Riotta
Yoel (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
Christopher Fairbank
Christopher Fairbank
Ruven
Robert Jacks
Robert Jacks
Peretz
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Serge El-Baz
Tony
Eli Gorenstein
Eli Gorenstein
Aba
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Joe El Dror
Yonah
Yehuda Efroni
Yehuda Efroni
Sandor
Rami Baruch
Rami Baruch
Enzo Sireni
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Avi Korein
Eliyahu Golomb
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt
Margit
Jon Rumney
Jon Rumney
Uncle Egon
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Magda Faluhelyi
Aunt Ella
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Emma Lewis
Cousin Evi