Hanna's War

Overview

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.

Cast

Ellen Burstyn

Katalin

Maruschka Detmers

Hanna

Anthony Andrews

McCormack

Donald Pleasence

Captain Thomas Rosza

David Warner

Captain Julian Simon

Vincent Riotta

Yoel (as Vincenzo Ricotta)

Christopher Fairbank

Ruven

Robert Jacks

Peretz

N/A

Serge El-Baz

Tony

Eli Gorenstein

Aba

N/A

Joe El Dror

Yonah

Yehuda Efroni

Sandor