HANNA'S WAR

Maruschka Detmers, Ellen Burstyn

Cannon; Directed by Menahem Golan

Rated PG-13; 148 minutes; 1988

HANNA'S WAR is the untold story of Hanna Senesh: a heroine, a warrior, a humanitarian. In this true story based on "The Diaries Of Hanna Senesh" and the book, A Great Wind Cometh, by Yoel Palgi, Dutch actress Maruschka Detmers is Hanna, a young Hungarian-born Jewish girl who, while attending school in Palestine, signs on as a resistance fighter during World War II. During an effort to re-enter Hungary and help the 800,000 Jews who had sought refuge there, she is captured and brutaly tortured by German-controlled Hungarian officials. Her powerful spirit and perseverance kept her alive and the secrets of her comrades revealed as she became a national heroine.