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.
Acting
Maruschka Detmers radiates impossible stillness under pressure.
Production
Golan's maximalist touches somehow suit the operatic tragedy.
Director
Menahem Golan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Golan made this between Over the Top and Delta Force — his 'serious' phase that Cannon funded.
Senesh's poem 'Eli, Eli' became a Holocaust memorial staple, but the film barely uses her actual writing.
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Can anyone tell where this movie can be watched online? Couldn't find it anywhere
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