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Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet who became a paratroooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. It was the only outside rescue mission for jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed. Incredibly, her mother catherine witnessed the entire ordeal, first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter.
With unprecedented access to the Senesh archive, Blessed is the Match unfolds through the writings and photographs of Hannah and Catherine Senesh. It reveals British-controlled Palestine during the war and explores the Kibbutz Movement, which drew Hannah and other idealistic Jews there in the hopes of building a Jewish state.
StarringDirected byRoberta GrossmanWritten bySophie SartainProducer(s)Roberta Grossman, Marta Kauffman, Lisa ThomasRatingRuntimeGenreNot Rated85 minDocumentary
This movie received the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival, the annual event that honors independent filmmakers. Learn more about the Crystal Heart Award and Heartland Film Festival.
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