Hanna's War

Hanna's War (1988) blends Drama and War elements. Top cast includes Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, and Anthony Andrews. It draws from real-world events while keeping the focus on character stakes.

Actor: Ellen Burstyn • Genre: Drama movies

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.