Hanna's War
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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.
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Cast
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Ellen Burstyn
Katalin
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Maruschka Detmers
Hanna
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Anthony Andrews
McCormack
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Donald Pleasence
Captain Thomas Rosza
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Halloween
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David Warner
Captain Julian Simon
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Titanic
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Vincent Riotta
Yoel (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
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Christopher Fairbank
Ruven
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Taboo
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Robert Jacks
Peretz
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The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Serge El-Baz
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Eli Gorenstein
Aba
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
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Joe El Dror
Yonah
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Yehuda Efroni
Sandor
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Menahem Golan Director · Stanley Mann Writer Dov Seltzer Composer
Worldwide gross $140K · United States release November 23, 1988 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$139,796
Production
Golan-Globus Productions
Production
The Cannon Group
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Hungarian
Release dates
Israel · April 14, 1988
Theatrical · (Tel Aviv) (premiere)
United States · November 23, 1988
Limited theatrical
Spain
November 25, 1988 · Theatrical · (Madrid)
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