• Film running length: 90 min
• UK release date: 8/11/2008
• Directed by: Roberta Grossman
• Language: English
• Distributor: Uk Jewish Film Festival

Who´s in it?

What´s the plot? Hannah Senesh was just 22 when she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe with a small band of Jewish volunteers from Palestine: the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. A gifted student from a wealthy Budapest family, Hannah became a committed Zionist in the face of growing anti-Semitism in Hungary, emigrating to Palestine in 1939 without her beloved mother Catherine. Hannah’s mission ended in tragedy when she was captured and executed in a Gestapo prison, yet
her poetry and diaries have left an inspirational legacy.

Roberta Grossman’s film tells Hannah’s story as much through the eyes of Catherine Senesh as those of the heroine herself, bringing their letters and diaries to life with gripping reconstructions to explain how their bond, as well as Hannah’s love for her people, compelled this courageous idealist to return to Hungary from the safety of her kibbutz. Narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Joan Allen, and featuring interviews with
Hannah’s fellow female parachutists and former Israeli president Shimon Peres, Blessed is the Match is an unmissable testament to a 20th century Joan of Arc.