Hanna's War (1988)

Title: Hanna's War

Original Title: Hanna's War

Release Date: 1988-04-14

Status: Released

Rating: 4.7/10 (from 3 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Drama, War

Production Companies: Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group

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.