# Hanna's War (1988)

English · 148 min · Released 1988-04-14

Hanna's War is a 1988 English film. Ellen Burstyn, Ben Miller, Daniel Caltagirone, Hannah John-Kamen and Joshua Hill appear in it, alongside 9 more credited names. It runs 2 hours 28 minutes.

Cast: Ellen Burstyn as Katalin, Ben Miller as Richard Poole, Daniel Caltagirone as Will 'Wolfie' Arnot, Hannah John-Kamen as Yasmin Blake, Joshua Hill as Jonathan Taylor, Toby Williams as Giles Parry, Shirley Henderson as DS Angela Young, Michelle Ryan as Lexi, Nick Moran as Pete Thunders, James Cosmo as Roger Seymour, Frances Tomelty as Olivia Reeves, James Faulkner as Frank O'Toole, Simon Paisley Day as Grigory Markoff, Gary Lewis as Bill Williams

## Storyline
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.

## Common questions

### When was Hanna's War released?
Hanna's War was released on 14 April 1988.

### Who stars in Hanna's War?
Ellen Burstyn, Ben Miller, Daniel Caltagirone and Hannah John-Kamen star in Hanna's War.

### How long is Hanna's War?
Hanna's War runs 2 hours 28 minutes.

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