Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hanah Senesh
Year | 2008 |
Director(s) | Roberta Grossman |
Runtime | 85 min |
Producer(s) | Lisa Thomas, Marta Kaufman, Roberta Grossman |
Writer(s) | Sophie Sartain |
Academy Award® nominee Joan Allen narrates the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet turned paratrooper and modern-day Joan of Arc. Hannah Senesh joined the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust and parachuted into Nazi-occupied territory to help save her native Hungary’s Jews. With unprecedented access to the family’s archive, the film unfolds through the writings of Hannah and Catherine Senesh.
Partially in German with English subtitles.