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Release Date: 1983
Cast: Jean Yanne, Mohammad Bakri, Jill Clayburgh, Gabriel Byrne
Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Political Drama
Hannah K. is a 1983 drama film directed by Costa Gavras, starring Jill Clayburgh and Gabriel Byrne.
Hanna K. is the story of Hannah Kaufman, a child of Holocaust survivors and an American-Jewish immigrant to Israel, who was a court-appointed lawyer assigned to defend a Palestinian, Salim Bakri, accused of terrorism and infiltration. Salim claimed that he was trying to regain possession of his family house. Hanna saved him from a jail sentence, but he was deported to Jordan. Salim eventually returned, was jailed for illegal immigration, and he again asked for her services. Hanna... MORE
Hannah K. is a 1983 drama film directed by Costa Gavras, starring Jill Clayburgh and Gabriel Byrne.
Hanna K. is the story of Hannah Kaufman, a child of Holocaust survivors and an American-Jewish immigrant to Israel, who was a court-appointed lawyer assigned to defend a Palestinian, Salim Bakri, accused of terrorism and infiltration. Salim claimed that he was trying to regain possession of his family house. Hanna saved him from a jail sentence, but he was deported to Jordan. Salim eventually returned, was jailed for illegal immigration, and he again asked for her services. Hanna investigated the story and discovered that Salim’s family home was now a tourist attraction in Kafr Rimon, a settlement built and lived in by Russian Jews. Bakri’s former village of Kufr Rumaneh had disappeared except for a few stones and trees.
The state’s attorneys offered Hanna a deal: if she dropped the proceedings, they would arrange for Salim to become a South African citizen, and he could then return to Israel and try to get his property back. Hanna was confronted with the fact that one legacy of the Holocaust was the disposition of the Palestinians while her colleagues attempted to persuade her of LESS
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