Hanna K.
Synopsis
Hanna K. is the story of Hanna Kaufman, a child of Holocaust survivors and an American-Jewish immigrant to Israel, who is a court-appointed lawyer assigned to defend a Palestinian, Salim Bakri, accused of terrorism and infiltration. Salim claims that he was trying to regain possession of his family house. Hanna saves him from a jail sentence, but he is deported to Jordan. Salim eventually returns, is jailed for illegal immigration, and he again asks for her services. Hanna investigates the story and discovered that Salim’s family home is now a tourist attraction in Kafr Rimon, a settlement built and lived in by Russian Jews. Bakri’s former village of Kufr Rumaneh has disappeared except for a few stones and trees.
The state’s attorneys offer Hanna a deal: if she drops the proceedings, they will arrange for Salim to become a South African citizen, and he can then return to Israel and try to get his property back. Hanna is confronted with the fact that one legacy of the Holocaust was the...
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Director (1)
Actors (10)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Gaumont, KG Productions
- Co-production : France 2 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : KG Productions
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producers : Michèle Ray Gavras, Edward Lewis
- Screenwriters : Franco Solinas, Costa Gavras
- Director of Photography : Ricardo Aronovich
- Music Composer : Gabriel Yared
- Assistant directors : Louis Becker, Claire Denis, Oury Milshtein, Avi Mograbi
- Editor : Françoise Bonnot
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Gamet
- Costume designer : Édith Vesperini
- Sound Assistant : Bernard Chaumeil
- Assistant Operator : Jacques Labesse
- Camera Operator : Philippe Brun
- Production Manager : Gérard Crosnier
- Assistant editors : Pascale Bouché, Michèle Robert-Lauliac
- Production Designer : Pierre Guffroy
- Casting : Margot Capelier
- Sound Mixer : Claude Villand
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Thriller, Drama
- Themes : Politics
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Israel, France
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