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Hanna's War

1988, Movie, NR, 148 mins

Hanna's War: Review

One of Israel's great martyrs, Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-born poet and daughter of a prominent playwright who emigrated to Palestine in 1938, is the subject of this well-intentioned film. Recruited into the British secret service in 1944, Senesh (played here by Detmers) was parachuted into Yugoslavia with instructions to make her way into Hungary, where she was to help establish escape routes for downed Allied fliers. Promptly captured, she was taken to Budapest, tortured, t... read more leave a comment