Inside Hana's Suitcase

Name: Inside Hana's Suitcase
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 18, 2012
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 59

2012

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Menemsha Films | Release Date: April 18, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: The delivery of a battered suitcase to Furniko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levine's best-selling book Hana's Suitcase. The suitcase came from the Auschwitz Museum and had Hanna Brady's name painted on it. Larry Weinstein's masterful film follows Furniko's search toThe delivery of a battered suitcase to Furniko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levine's best-selling book Hana's Suitcase. The suitcase came from the Auschwitz Museum and had Hanna Brady's name painted on it. Larry Weinstein's masterful film follows Furniko's search to discover the details of Hana's life, which leads to the discover of her brother George in Toronto. As small children they had been sent to Thereisenstadt for being Jewish after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939. (Menemsha Films)… Expand

Director: Larry Weinstein

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Ray Conlogue

Apr 17, 2012

What always feels genuine, movingly so, are the faces of the school children caught up in their account of the unforgotten past. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Apr 17, 2012

Although their responses too often seem rehearsed, their innocence is touching and redemptive. Read full review

Loren King

Apr 17, 2012

In the end, what makes Inside Hana's Suitcase so powerful is the most traditional technique of all: authentic and eloquent storytelling by memorable characters. Read full review

Nick Schager

Apr 17, 2012

A documentary saga of heartbreaking concentration-camp horrors, Inside Hana's Suitcase attempts to preserve Holocaust memories through frustratingly fractured means. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Apr 18, 2012

Subject matter this powerfully charged shouldn't feel like a study aid. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Apr 17, 2012

It would be odd not to feel something about Hana and the Brady family, but Inside Hana's Suitcase feels more like a historical teaching aid than like a great movie. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Apr 17, 2012

A film relating a story of the Holocaust is destined to provoke a number of adjectives, but "cloying" shouldn't be one of them. Read full review

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