Independent Lens (1999)
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Mark Feuerstein as Antoine Tissandier (voice)
Episodes 1
Blessed Is the Match
April 13, 2010
• 1h
11x20
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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