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Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

Play trailer Poster for Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh 2009,  1h 26m,  Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
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67% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 71% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
After Hungarian poet Hannah Senesh leaves the safety of Palestine to rescue Jews in her native country, Nazis capture and kill her.

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Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times Feb 6, 2009
3.5/5
Intent on seeing Senesh as a symbol of hope and resistance, Blessed Is the Match is content to focus on the tragic legend that her life became. Go to Full Review
Ella Taylor L.A. Weekly Feb 5, 2009
Roberta Grossman's film is an ungainly hybrid of straight-up documentary and ingenuous re-enactment. Go to Full Review
V.A. Musetto New York Post Jan 30, 2009
2/4
Blessed Is the Match tells us just about everything we might want to know about her -- except why she did what she did. Go to Full Review
Christopher Long Movie Metropolis May 1, 2010
7/10
(The film) goes beyond the symbol to find the flesh and blood woman who sacrificed her life for her beliefs and her people. Go to Full Review
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Apr 16, 2010
83/100
Roberta Grossman's film gracefully integrates tasteful re-enactments into a straight-up documentary approach, but, deliberately steers away from the more interesting questions of Senesh's character ... Go to Full Review
Phil Hall IdentityTheory Jan 11, 2010
4/5
An excellent tribute to a young woman who has been, for too long, an unsung hero of World War II. Go to Full Review
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Roberta Grossman

Director

Joan Allen

Narrator

Sophie Sartain

Writer

Lisa Thomas

Producer

Roberta Grossman

Producer

Marta Kauffman

Executive Producer

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Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

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Movie Info

Synopsis After Hungarian poet Hannah Senesh leaves the safety of Palestine to rescue Jews in her native country, Nazis capture and kill her.
Director
Roberta Grossman
Producer
Lisa Thomas, Roberta Grossman
Screenwriter
Sophie Sartain
Distributor
Balcony Releasing
Production Co
The Katahdin Foundation
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 28, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$17.7K
Runtime
1h 26m
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