Hanna K. 1983

Runtime

100 mins

Language

English

English

Her independence is encouraged, yet her probing questions threaten the state. Israeli lawyer Hanna Kaufman, a U.S.-born daughter of Holocaust survivors, defends Selim Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian facing serious charges. Through the case she confronts Israel’s moral dilemmas while Bakri seeks to reclaim his family home.

Her independence is encouraged, yet her probing questions threaten the state. Israeli lawyer Hanna Kaufman, a U.S.-born daughter of Holocaust survivors, defends Selim Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian facing serious charges. Through the case she confronts Israel’s moral dilemmas while Bakri seeks to reclaim his family home.

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Hanna Kaufman [Jill Clayburgh] centers on a child of Holocaust survivors and an American-Jewish immigrant to Israel who becomes a court-appointed lawyer assigned to defend Salim Bakri Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian accused of terrorism and infiltration. Salim claims that he is 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 again asks for her services. Hanna investigates the story and discovers that Salim’s family home has become a tourist attraction in Kafr Rimon, a settlement built and inhabited by Russian Jews. Bakri’s former village Kufr Rumaneh has disappeared, leaving only 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 has been the dispossession of Palestinians, while her colleagues press the case for defending Israel even if Palestinians are denied their rights.

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1970

M-325

BMW

1971

1602

Chevrolet

1971

Suburban

Dodge

1942

WC 51

Fiat

1966

124

Ford

1979

Escort MkII

Ford

1942

GPW

Ford

1975

Transit MkI

Ford

1978

Transit MkII

GMC

1978

Vandura

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Χάννα Κ. 한나 K 汉娜·考夫曼的故事

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