Hanna's War

The story

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 & crew

Ellen BurstynKatalin

Maruschka DetmersHanna

Anthony AndrewsMcCormack

Donald PleasenceCaptain Thomas Rosza

David WarnerCaptain Julian Simon

Vincent RiottaYoel (as Vincenzo Ricotta)

Christopher FairbankRuven

Robert JacksPeretz

Serge El-Baz

Serge El-BazTony

Eli GorensteinAba

Joe El Dror

Joe El DrorYonah

Yehuda EfroniSandor