Hanna's War

Hanna's War

148 mins | Drama, War | April 14, 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.

Hanna's War

148 mins | Drama, War | April 14, 1988

Hanna's War
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.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
Original title Hanna's War
Directors Menahem Golan
Writers Stanley Mann, Menahem Golan

Cast

Ellen Burstyn

as Katalin

Anthony Andrews

as McCormack

Donald Pleasence

as Captain Thomas Rosza

David Warner

as Captain Julian Simon

Vincent Riotta

as Yoel (as Vincenzo Ricotta)

Robert Jacks

as Peretz

Serge El-Baz

as Tony

Joe El Dror

as Yonah

Yehuda Efroni

as Sandor

Rami Baruch

as Enzo Sireni

Avi Korein

as Eliyahu Golomb

Ingrid Pitt

as Margit

Jon Rumney

as Uncle Egon

Magda Faluhelyi

as Aunt Ella

Emma Lewis

as Cousin Evi

Dorota Stalińska

as Maritza

Russell Porter

as George

George Dillon

as Milenko

Nigel Hastings

as Jancsi

John Stride

as Dr. Komoly

Patsy Byrne

as Rosie

Rade Šerbedžija

as Captain Ivan

Miodrag Krivokapić

as Colonel Ilya

Margitai Ági

as Professor Ravas

Patrick Monckton

as Kalosh

István Hunyadkürthy

as Smuggler

Teri Tordai

as Baroness Hatvany

Barry Langford

as Air Commodore Hadley

Jeff Gerner

as Lieutenant Colonel Simmonds

Shimon Finkel

as Ben Gurion

Peter Czajowski

as Andy

Jozsef Lakky

as Ticket Clerk

Teréz Várhegyi

as Marietta

Gábor Váradi

as Young Sergeant

József Incze

as Hungarian Policeman

György ifj. Gonda

as German Officer

Miklós Nagy

as Detective

István Lakatos

as Detective

Tamás Farkas

as Hotel Clerk

Zsuzsa Pálos

as Female Prisoner

Laura Bökönyi

as Female Prisoner

Magda Darvas

as Female Prisoner

Jon Varady

as Guard

Balázs Blaskó

as Male Secretary

Árpád Ladányi

as Jewish Refugee

Csaba Pethes

as Porter

Imre Szalai

as Sergeant

István József Nagy

as Man on tram (uncredited)