Director: Roberta Grossman Genre: Documentary
Release Date: January 28, 2009 (U.S.)
Duration: 86 minutes
Cast: Alona Tal, Joan Allen, Meri Roth, Marcela Nohynkova, Monika Malacova
Overview: Blessed is the Match is the first documentary about the role of Hannah Senesh, the Second World War was Diarist and poet who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and now Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, he joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Surprisingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and finally executed by the Nazis. His mother Catherine witnessed the entire trial - first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as his defense against the bombing-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save Hannah. With unprecedented access to family Senesh file, this moving story is developed through the writings and photographs of Hannah and Catherine Senesh.
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