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Blessed Is the Match

E20    Apr 13, 2010    60m    TV-PG
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Joan Allen narrates this film about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis.
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Cast of Blessed Is the Match
  • Susan Sarandon
  • Peter Coyote
  • America Ferrera
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Stanley Tucci
  • Alona TalHannah Senesh (voice)
  • Mark FeuersteinAntoine Tissandier (voice)

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